Jhalak prizes 2024 shortlists announced
The 2024 shortlists for the Jhalak Prize and Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize have been announced.
Titles in the running for each prize are:
Jhalak Prize
- A Flat Place (Noreen Masud, Penguin)
- Anansi’s Gold: The man who swindled the world (Yepoka Yeebo, Bloomsbury)
- Boundary Road (Ami Rao, Everything with Words)
- Fire Rush (Jacqueline Crooks, Vintage)
- Self-Portrait as Othello (Jason Allen-Paisant, Carcanet)
- Twelve Words for Moss (Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Penguin)
Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize
- Geoffrey Gets the Jitters (Nadia Shireen, Puffin)
- How to Die Famous (Benjamin Dean, S&S Children’s)
- Safiyyah’s War (Hiba Noor Khan, Andersen Press)
- Steady for This (Nathanael Lessore, Hotkey)
- To the Other Side (Erika Meza, Hodder Children’s Books)
- Wild Song (Candy Gourlay, David Fickling Books).
The Jhalak Prize (first awarded in March 2017) and the Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize (founded in 2020) celebrate books by writers of colour in Britain and Ireland.
The judges for the 2024 Jhalak Prize are authors Anni Domingo, Stella Oni and Denise Saul; the judges for the Children’s & Young Adult Prize are authors JP Rose, Rashmi Sirdeshpande and Danielle Jawando.
The winners, who will each be awarded £1000 (A$1926) and a specially created work of art as part of the ongoing Jhalak Art Residency, will be announced in London on Thursday 30 May.
Last year’s winners were Travis Alabanza, who won the Jhalak Prize for their memoir None of the Above (Canongate), and Danielle Jawando, who won the Jhalak Children’s and Young Adult Prize for her YA novel When Our Worlds Collided (S&S Children’s).
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