Jhalak Prize

Jhalak Prize
Awarded for Book of the year by a writer of colour
Country United Kingdom
First awarded 2017 (2017)
Website Official website

The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, is an annual literary prize awarded to British or British-resident writers. The prize, launched in 2017, was created by writers Sunny Singh and Nikesh Shukla, and Media Diversified, it is supported by The Authors’ Club and an anonymous donor. It is the first and only literary prize in the UK to only accept entries by writers of colour.[1]

Winners

Year Author Title Genre(s) Shortlist Judges
2017 Blue ribbon Jacob Ross The Bone Readers[2] fiction
  • Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl Of Ink And Stars (Chicken House)
  • Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man (Harvill Secker)
  • Irenosen Okojie, Speak Gigantular (Jacaranda)
  • David Olusoga, Black And British: A Forgotten History (Macmillan)
  • Jacob Ross, The Bone Readers
  • Gary Younge, Another Day In The Death Of America (Faber)
2018 Blue ribbon Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race[3] non-fiction
  • Nadeem Aslam, The Golden Legend (Faber)
  • Kayo Chingonyi, Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus)
  • Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I ‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury Circus)
  • Xiaolu Guo, Once Upon a Time in the East (Chatto & Windus)
  • Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (Atlantic Books)
  • Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, The Island at the End of Everything (Chicken House)

References

  1. ↑ "Independent presses dominate Jhalak Prize longlist". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  2. ↑ Cain, Sian (2017-03-17). "Caribbean crime thriller wins inaugural prize for only BAME writers". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  3. ↑ Flood, Alison (19 March 2018). "Reni Eddo-Lodge wins Jhalak prize for British writers of colour", The Guardian.
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