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Jhalak Prize

First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident writers of colour. 

Allow Me to Introduce Myself: 'You will not be able to put this down' Glamour
Determination: the absorbing novel about a refugee solicitor
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging
Everest
Manny and the Baby
My Friends
Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman
The Ministry of Time: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
The Rest of You
The Thirty Before Thirty List: An uplifting novel about missed chances and new beginnings
Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
TOP DOLL: Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot 2024
The Tattoo Collector
Signs, Music
Self-Portrait With Family
Fantasia
Emotional Support Horse
Collected Poems
Boiled Owls
amuk
AGIMAT
Adam
These Stolen Lives
The Thread That Connects Us
The Hidden Story of Estie Noor
The Gift
The Boy to Beat the Gods
Red Sky at Night; Poet's Delight
Mayowa and the Sea of Words
Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings
King of Nothing: A hilarious and heartwarming teen comedy!
It's Time to Hush and Say Good Night
Flower Block
Bringing Back Kay-Kay: The Times Children's Book of the Week
Anansi's Gold: The man who swindled the world Safiyyah's War
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Jhalak Prize Winners 2024

A Flat Place Boundary Road Fire Rush
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The Jhalak Prize Shortlist 2024

Geoffrey Gets the Jitters How To Die Famous Safiyyah's War
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Jhalak Children's and YA prize shortlist 2024

River Spirit Self-Portrait as Othello Azucar: a novel
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The 2024 Jhalak Prize Longlist

Koku Akanbi: The Heart of Midnight: Epic fantasy adventure perfect for Marvel fans My Life As A Chameleon: Longlisted for the Jhalak Children's and YA Prize 2024 Poetry Prompts: All sorts of ways to start a poem from Joseph Coelho
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The Jhalak Children's and YA Prize Longlist 2024

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary When Our Worlds Collided: Winner of the YA Book Prize and the Jhalak YA Prize!
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Jhalak Prize Winners 2023

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: “An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel” STEPHEN F
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The Jhalak Prize Shortlist 2023

In Our Hands
When Our Worlds Collided: Winner of the YA Book Prize and the Jhalak YA Prize!
Mia and the Lightcasters
Ellie Pillai is Brown
Rebel Skies
Dadaji's Paintbrush
The Room Between Us
Another Way to Split Water
Hiding to Nothing
I'm a Fan
Losing the Plot
Here Again Now: 'Written in exquisite prose and told with compassion and tenderness' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half
When We Were Birds: Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the Author's Club First Novel Award 2023
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: “An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel” STEPHEN F
The Attic Child: A powerful and heartfelt historical novel, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023
Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
Birdgirl: ‘Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ Margaret Atwood
Dadaji's Paintbrush
Rebel Skies
The Haunting of Tyrese Walker
Ellie Pillai is Brown
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun: A superhero adventure perfect for Marvel and DC fans!
Mia and the Lightcasters
Needle
When Our Worlds Collided: Winner of the YA Book Prize and the Jhalak YA Prize!
These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice
Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad
In Our Hands
John Agard's Windrush Child
The Roles We Play Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
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Jhalak Prize Winners 2022

Consumed: A Sister’s Story - SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021
Keeping the House
Like a Tree, Walking
Somebody Loves You
The Roles We Play
Things I Have Withheld
Ace of Spades
Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
The Crossing
The Sound of Everything
We're Going to Find the Monster
A Blood Condition
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
Consumed: A Sister’s Story - SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Honorifics
Keeping the House
Like a Tree, Walking
Somebody Loves You
The Khan
The Roles We Play
Things I Have Withheld
Ace of Spades
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Lionheart Girl
We're Going to Find the Monster
Afterlove: A YA LGBTQ+ dark romance of love and the afterlife - Tiktok made me buy it!
Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
Luna Loves Dance
Grown: The Black Girls' Guide to Glowing Up
Rumaysa: A Fairytale
The Sound of Everything
The Crossing
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
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Jhalak Prize Winner 2021

Eight Pieces of Silva: an addictive mystery that refuses to let you go …
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The Jhalak Children's and YA Prize Winner 2021

Antiemetic for Homesickness
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
My Darling from the Lions
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
Are We Home Yet?
Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut
The Ga Picture Alphabet
When Life Gives You Mangoes
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly
Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica
Eight Pieces of Silva: an addictive mystery that refuses to let you go …
A Fox Called Herbert
Too Small Tola
The Ga Picture Alphabet
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
When Life Gives You Mangoes
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly
Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica
The Little War Cat
Eight Pieces of Silva: an addictive mystery that refuses to let you go …
Mohinder's War
A Fox Called Herbert
Antiemetic for Homesickness
Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut
The Mercies: The Bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
Poor
My Darling from the Lions
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
re: desire
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
A More Perfect Union
What's Left of Me is Yours
Are We Home Yet?
The Roles We Play
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A Letter from Sabba Khan

Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
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A Letter from Maisie Chan

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
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Jhalak Prize Winner 2020

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
Suncatcher: Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2020
Fleche
Queenie: Now a Channel 4 series
The Black Flamingo: The much loved, award-winning, queer coming-of-age story
Remembered: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2019
In Our Mad and Furious City: Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize
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Jhalak Prize Winner 2019

The Boy At the Back of the Class
In Our Mad and Furious City: Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize
Happiness
The Perseverance
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
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Jhalak Prize Winner 2018

The Island at the End of Everything
When I Hit You
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Kumukanda
The Golden Legend
The Bone Readers
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Jhalak Prize Winner 2017

Another Day in the Death of America
The Bone Readers
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Speak Gigantular
A Rising Man
The Girl of Ink & Stars