Jhalak Prize
Jhalak Prize | |
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Awarded for | 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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2021 | Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi[7][8] | The First Woman | fiction |
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References[]
- ^ Wood, Heloise (30 January 2018). "Independent presses dominate Jhalak Prize longlist". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Jhalak Prize". Media Diversified. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Cain, Sian (17 March 2017). "Caribbean crime thriller wins inaugural prize for only BAME writers". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ 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 11 January 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Cain, Sian (26 May 2020). "Johny Pitts wins Jhalak prize for 'beautiful' history of black Europe". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Shortlist announced for 2021 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers". Books+Publishing. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Flood, Alison (25 May 2021). "Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence win Jhalak prizes for writers of colour". The Guardian.
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