The 2010 Wingate Literary Prize

The Jewish Quarterly is delighted to announce the judges for the JQ-Wingate Prize 2010:

· Anne Karpf (Chair) writer, sociologist and journalist
· Robert Cassen OBE, Professor and author
· Naomi Gryn, writer, broadcaster and filmmaker
· Joseph Finlay, composer, pianist and grassroots Jewish activist

Former winners include Amos Oz, David Grossman, Zadie Smith, Imre Kertesz, Oliver Sacks, WG Sebald, Etgar Keret and Fred Wander.
Details of the shortlist will be announced in April, and the winner at an awards ceremony in May.
This is the only UK prize to recognise writing by Jewish and non-Jewish authors, which stimulates an interest in themes of Jewish concern while appealing to the general reader.

About the judges:

Anne Karpf is a writer, sociologist and award-winning journalist who writes for The Guardian, broadcasts regularly on Radios 3 and 4, and teaches at London Metropolitan University. Her books include the family memoir The War After: Living with the Holocaust (recently republished by Faber Finds) and The Human Voice: The Story of a Remarkable Talent (Bloomsbury). She is co-editor of A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity (Verso).

Robert Cassen OBE is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics. He was a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, and Director of Queen Elizabeth House and Professor of Development Economics at Oxford. He served on the staff of DfID, the British High Commission in New Delhi, the World Bank, and the Brandt Commission and is the author of India: Population, Economy, Society; of Does Aid Work? (with associates); 21st Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development and the Environment; with Tim Dyson and Leela Visaria, and Tackling Low Educational Achievement: a Report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation with Geeta Kingdon.

Naomi Gryn is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker. Television documentaries include The Sabbath Bride, Chasing Shadows, The Star, and The Castle & The Butterfly. A former chairman of Society of Authors' Broadcasting Group, she has written and presented a number of radio documentaries for BBC, including A Strange Legacy (Radio 4), Next Year In Jerusalem (Radio 2), Inside The New Yorker (Radio 4), and The Jews of India (World Service). Naomi co-authored and edited her father's (Rabbi Hugo Gryn) memoirs, Chasing Shadows for Viking/Penguin.

Joseph Finlay is a composer, pianist and a grassroots Jewish activist. He has co-founded, or been closely involved in Wandering Jews, Jewdas, Moishe House London, and the Open Talmud Project.