Jewish Booker nominations
The British Jewery top literary award “The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize” (Jewish Booker) named after the host Jewish Quarterly, recognises Jewish and non-Jewish writers from UK, British Commonwealth, Europe and Israel will be held on Monday 20th April 2015 at the JW3 Centre Finchley Road. Established in 1977 by late Harold Hyam Wingate the winner receives £4000. This year’s judging panel of the JQ-Wingate Prize 2015 includes Gabriel Josipovici, Eva Hoffman, George Szirtes and Devorah Baum.
The shortlist nominations :
Antony Polonsky, Jews in Poland and Russia (Littman Library)
Hannah Krall, Chasing he King of Hearts – Translated by Philip Boehm ( Peirene)
Zeruya Shalev, Remains of Love –Translated by Philip Simpson ( Bloomsbury)
Michael Laub, Dairy of the Fall – Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ( Harvill)
Gary Shteyngart Little Failure ( Penguin)
Dror Burstein, Netanya – Translated by Todd Hasak-Lowry ( Dalkey Archive)
Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz (Heinemann)