2025 Jhalak Prize Longlists
The 12-title longlists for the Jhalak Prose Prize, Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize, and the new Jhalak Poetry Prize have been announced.
The awards “seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in the UK and Ireland.” The prize awards £1000 to each winner, along with “a unique work of art created by artists chosen for the annual Jhalak Art Residency.”
The longlist features several titles and authors of genre interest, including:
Prose Prize
- The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre)
- The Strangers, Ekow Eshun (Hamish Hamilton)
- My Friends, Hisham Matar (Viking)
Children’s & YA Prize
- These Stolen Lives, Sharada Keats (Scholastic)
- Mayowa and the Sea of Words, Chibundu Onuzo (Bloomsbury)
- It’s Time to Hush and Say Goodnight by Chitra Soundar (Walker)
- The Boy to Beat the Gods, Ashley Thorpe (Usborne)
Poetry Prize
- Agimat, Romalyn Ante (Chatto & Windus)
- amuk, Khairani Barokka (Nine Arches)
- Fantasia, Nisha Ramayya (Granta)
The 2025 judges are Jason Allen-Paisant, Malika Booker, Will Harris, Sareeta Domingo, Taran N. Khan, Yepoka Yeebo, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Hiba Noor Khan, and Alom Shaha.
The shortlists will be announced April 22, 2025, and winners on June 4. For more information, including the full longlists, see the Jhalak Prize website.
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