Jhalak_Prize

Jhalak Prize

Jhalak Prize

British literary award

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.

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The Jhalak Prize was launched in 2016 and was created by writers Sunny Singh, Nikesh Shukla, and Media Diversified. It is supported by The Authors’ Club and by The Jhalak Foundation,[1] owned by Professor Singh's family. The prize and foundation are named after Professor Singh's grandmother.[2] It 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."[3][4] In 2017 the comedian Shappi Khorsandi withdrew her novel from the longlist.[5] Consequentially, the prize was reported to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.[6] The complaint was not upheld.

In 2020, a sister award, the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize, was founded.[7]

Jhalak Prize recipients

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Children's and Young Adult Prize recipients

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Notes

  1. The 2017 judges were Sunny Singh, Catherine Johnson , Yvvette Edwards, Musa Okwonga, and Alex Wheatle.
  2. The 2018 judges were Sunny Singh, Catherine Johnson , Tanya Byrne, Vera Chok, and Noo Saro-Wiwa.
  3. The 2019 judges were Anna Perera, Sabrina Mahfouz, Sarah Shaffi, and Siana Bangura.
  4. The 2020 judges were Roy McFarlane, Anita Sethi, Nikesh Shukla, and Kerry Young.
  5. The 2021 judges were Yvonne Battle-Felton, Louise Doughty and Peter Kalu.
  6. The 2022 judges were Mary Jean Chan, Chimene Suleyman and Stephen S. Thompson.
  7. The 2023 judges were Haleh Agar,Yaba Badoe, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Maisie Chan, Irfan Master and Monisha Rajesh.
  8. The 2024 judges were Anni Domingo, Danielle Jawando, Stella Oni, J. P. Rose, Denise Saul and Rashmi Sirdeshpande.

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