Jhalak Prize

The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour is an annual literary prize awarded to British or British-resident BAME writers. £1,000 is awarded to the sole winner. The Jhalak Prize launched in 2016 and was created by writers Sunny Singh, Nikesh Shukla, and Media Diversified. It is supported by The Authors’ Club and an anonymous donor, and is the second literary prize in the UK to only accept entries by writers of colour, following the SI Leeds Literary Prize for BAME women writers, which was first awarded in 2012. In 2016, the Equality and Human Rights Commission praised: "this award is the type of action which the Commission supports and recommends."[1][2]

Jhalak Prize
Awarded forBook of the year by a writer of colour
CountryUnited Kingdom
First awarded2017 (2017)
WebsiteOfficial website

Winners
Year Author Title Genre(s) Shortlist Judges
2017 Blue ribbon Jacob Ross The Bone Readers[3] fiction
2018 Blue ribbon Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race[4] 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)
2019 Blue ribbon Guy Gunaratne[5] In Our Mad and Furious City fiction
2020 Blue ribbon Johny Pitts[6] Afropean: Notes From Black Europe non-fiction
2021 Blue ribbon Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi[7][8] The First Woman fiction
  • Romalyn Ante, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus)
  • Catherine Cho, Inferno (Bloomsbury)
  • Rachel Long, My Darling From the Lions (Picador)
  • Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman (Oneworld)
  • Katy Massey, Are We Home Yet (Jacaranda)
  • Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk (Dialogue Books)
2022[9] Blue ribbon Sabba Khan The Roles We Play[10] fiction
  • Arifa Akbar, Consumed (Sceptre)
  • Mona Arshi, Somebody Loves You (And Other Stories)
  • Vahni Capildeo, Like a Tree, Walking (Carcenet)
  • Tice Cin, Keeping the House (And Other Stories)
  • Sabba Khan, The Roles We Play (Myriad)
  • Kei Miller, Things I Have Withheld (Canongate)

References
  1. Wood, Heloise (30 January 2018). "Independent presses dominate Jhalak Prize longlist". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  2. "Jhalak Prize". Media Diversified. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  3. Cain, Sian (17 March 2017). "Caribbean crime thriller wins inaugural prize for only BAME writers". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  4. Flood, Alison (19 March 2018). "Reni Eddo-Lodge wins Jhalak prize for British writers of colour", The Guardian.
  5. Taylor, Jack (1 May 2019). "'The London book of our lifetime': Guy Gunaratne wins Jhalak prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
  6. Cain, Sian (26 May 2020). "Johny Pitts wins Jhalak prize for 'beautiful' history of black Europe". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  7. "Shortlist announced for 2021 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers". Books+Publishing. 14 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. Flood, Alison (25 May 2021). "Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence win Jhalak prizes for writers of colour". The Guardian.
  9. "Jhalak Prize 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  10. "Sabba Khan Wins the 2022 Jhalak Prize". libraryjournal. 2 June 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.


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