Jhalak Prize
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Description | Book of the year by a writer of colour |
Country | United Kingdom |
First awarded | 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 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]
Winners
Year | Author | Title | Genre(s) | Shortlist | Judges |
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2017 | Jacob Ross | The Bone Readers[3] | fiction |
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2018 | Reni Eddo-Lodge | Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race[4] | non-fiction |
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2019 | Guy Gunaratne[5] | In Our Mad and Furious City | fiction |
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2020 | Johny Pitts [6] | Afropean: Notes From Black Europe | non-fiction |
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References
- ^ "Independent presses dominate Jhalak Prize longlist". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
- ^ "Jhalak Prize". Media Diversified. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ Cain, Sian (2017-03-17). "Caribbean crime thriller wins inaugural prize for only BAME writers". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
- ^ Flood, Alison (19 March 2018). "Reni Eddo-Lodge wins Jhalak prize for British writers of colour", The Guardian.
- ^ Taylor, Jack (1 May 2019). "'The London book of our lifetime': Guy Gunaratne wins Jhalak prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-11 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Cain, Sian (2020-05-26). "Johny Pitts wins Jhalak prize for 'beautiful' history of black Europe". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-05-26.