JW3 are proud to present an evening celebrating the winner of the 47th Wingate Prize for Literature, a cornerstone of the International Jewish Literary landscape.
Join Emily Kasriel, Trustee of the Wingate Foundation, who will host an evening of conversation and celebration.
We will be hearing from authors and judges to discuss the themes and issues that have emerged from this year's prize. The 2024 judges are Benjamin Markovits, Natasha Solomons, Ashley Hickson Lovence and Rabba Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz.
Now in its 47th year, the annual prize, worth £4,000 and run in association with JW3, is awarded to the best book, fiction or non-fiction, to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader.
The Shortlist has been announced for the 2023/2024 Wingate Prize!
The judges of the Wingate Literary Prize 2023/2024 are delighted to announce their shortlist of six books, which collectively reflect the depths of Jewishness and Jewish life.
Among the two works of fiction and four non-fiction, the authors cover a diverse range of subjects, from chronic illness and photography, to the Cold War and cooking.
The 2023/2024 shortlisted books ■
Your Hearts, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman
Your Hearts, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman (Bellevue Literary Press)
Adina Talve-Goodman challenges us to think differently about ill bodies, desire and death in the context of her relationship with Judaism. This tender and lyrical book will make you laugh while breaking your heart.
The Dissident by Paul Goldberg
The Dissident by Paul Goldberg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Paul Goldberg takes us on a tour of the 1970s Moscow world of Jewish refuseniks, in an original, sharp mystery murder that crackles with flashes of dark humour and vivid observation. The wry authorial voice is irresistible.
Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm
Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm (Granta Books UK, Farrar, Straus and Giroux US)
A wonderfully minor-key memoir of an artistic life as the daughter of Jewish immigrants trying to find her feet in America. Written in a style so natural and vivid you forget it’s there, by a master of the form.
Kosher Soul by Michael Twitty
Kosher Soul by Michael Twitty (Harper 360)
A personal and compelling cross-genre exploration of the many layers of Black Jewishness. In a tone that feels refreshingly accessible, Kosher Soul is a book that will accompany you to the kitchen, into the dining room and then linger long after your final bite.
The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken
The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken (Jonathan Cape)
Elizabeth McCracken sees the world with a poet’s eye for detail, her observations wry and melancholy, always acute. A moving elegy of a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother that simultaneously feels like a celebration of the possibilities of the novel.
One Hundred Saturdays by Michael Frank
One Hundred Saturdays by Michael Frank (Souvenir Press)
Beautifully evokes La Juderia in Rhodes before the Second World War, one of the many worlds destroyed by the Holocaust – told from the point of view of an extraordinary woman who survived it.
