A work by David Cesarani, the historian who died last year aged 58, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, it has been announced.
Professor Cesarani’s Holocaust history, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews is one of five books vying for the £4,000 prize.
Novelist Walter Kempowski was also shortlised posthumously. His work All for Nothing – a story inspired by the genocide of Germans in East Prussia at the end of World War Two - was first published in 2006, a year before his death, but was translated into English only last year by Anthea Bell.
Anna Bikont’s The Crime and Silence, about the massacre of Polish Jews in 1941,was also published over a decade ago, in 2004. A translation from the original Polish by Alissa Valles appeared last year.
