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 Jacob Ross The Bone Readers[3] fiction
2018 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 Guy Gunaratne[5] In Our Mad and Furious City fiction
  • Roma Agrawal, Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures (Bloomsbury)
  • Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire (Two Roads)
  • Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins)
  • Aminatta Forna, Happiness (Bloomsbury)
  • Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder Press)
  • Onjali Q. Rauf, The Boy At The Back of The Class (Hachette Children's)
2020 Johny Pitts [6] Afropean: Notes From Black Europe non-fiction

References
  1. Wood, Heloise (30 January 2018). "Independent presses dominate Jhalak Prize longlist". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  2. "Jhalak Prize". Media Diversified. 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.


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