The works of Israeli writers Nir Baram, David Grossman, and Eshkol Nevo have been nominated for Jewish Quarterly's annual Wingate Prize literary award along with 10 other novels, all of which the judges felt were "powerful expressions of the diversity of Jewish experience."
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Among the seven works of fiction and six non-fiction, there are authors from Britain, Europe, Israel, and the United States.
Baram's At Night's End – translated by Jessica Cohen – is a universal story of family and love that speaks of an extraordinary friendship between two boys who become men haunted by a shared past.
Grossman's More Than I Love My Life – also translated by Jessica Cohen – is a sweeping novel about the power of love that confronts the readers' deepest-held beliefs about a woman's duty to herself and her children.
Nevo's The Last Interview – translated by Sondra Silverston – gives a nuanced and thought-provoking portrait of a country at odds with itself.
The Wingate Prize shortlist will be announced in January and the winner in February. Also nominated for the award are authors Nicole Krauss (To Be a Man), Martin Puchner (The Language of Thieves), Arthur Green (Judaism for the World), Max Gross (The Lost Shtetl), and others.
Grossman won the Wingate Prize in 2004 and 2011. In its 45th year, the annual prize is worth over $5,000.
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