Jhalak Prize
About
First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize awards seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in the UK and Ireland.
Dates 2025
Submissions window:
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12 September 2024 –
13 December 2024
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Longlist announcement:
18 March 2025
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Shortlist announcement:
22 April 2025
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Winner announcement:
May 2025
Previous winners
Sponsor
In Hindi and many related Northern Indian dialects, Jhalak means ‘glimpse’; implicitly brief, often tantalising with promise, piquing curiosity to explore further. It seems an appropriate name for what I believe is the first prize for Book Of The Year By A Writer of Colour.
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The Jhalak Prize will recognise the vastness of talent, ambition and creative vigour that is often overlooked by an industry that has yet to decolonize its gaze and acknowledge that we do not live in world of lactified centres and rainbow peripheries.
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- The benefactor providing the prize money, who wishes to remain anonymous
