Wingate Prize 2020 Longlist Announced

The longlist for the 43rd annual Wingate Prize, worth £4,000 (roughly $4,240) and run in association with JW3, includes seven works of fiction and five works of nonfiction. The prize recognizes the best book to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. 

The Wingate Prize shortlist will be announced early February, and the winner will be announced at an event at JW3 on March 16.

The 2020 long-listed books are:

• Where to Find Me by Alba Arikha (Alma Books)
• Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literacy Legacy by Benjamin Balint (Picador)
• Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander (Orion Books)
• A Stranger City by Linda Grant (Virago)
• The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Pushkin Press)
• Live a Little by Howard Jacobson Jonathan (Cape)
• Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944 by Jacques Semelin (Translated by Natasha Lehrer and Cynthia Schoch) (Hurst & Co)
• Inheritance by Dani Shapiro (Daunt Books)
• Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart Hamish Hamilton Katalin Street by Magda Szabo (Translated by Len Rix) (Maclehose Press)
• The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes Maclehose Press The Order of the Day – Eric Vuillard (Translated by Mark Polizzotti) (Picador)