Congratulations to the winners of the Jhalak Prize - 

Prose - N.S. Nuseibeh for Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman

Poetry - Mimi Khalvati for Collected Poems

C&YA - Nathanael Lessore for King of Nothing

N.S.Nuseibeh is a British-Palestinian writer and researcher, born and raised in East Jerusalem. She has previously written for the Atlantic and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Namesake won the Giles St Aubyn Award first prize as a work-in-progress.

Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up on the Isle of Wight. She has published nine poetry collections with Carcanet Press, and is the founder of The Poetry School. Her awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, a major Arts Council Award and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of The English Society. In 2023 she was awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Nathanael Lessore was born in Camberwell, South East London, as one of eight children to French and Madagascan parents. His debut book Steady For This was shortlisted for the Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize, and won the Branford Boase Award 2024. He writes stories that show his South East London childhood as the funny, warm, adventurous world that wasn’t always represented as such.