2020
Winner:
Johny Pitts -
Afropean
(Penguin)
Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer and broadcast journalist. He has received various awards for his work exploring African-European identity, including a Decibel Penguin Prize and an ENAR (European Network Against Racism) award. He is the curator of the online journal Afropean.com, part of the Guardian's Africa Network and has collaborated with Caryl Philips on a photographic essay about London's immigrant communities for the BBC and Arts Council.
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Short list
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Dean Atta - The Black Flamingo (Hodder Children’s)
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Yvonne Battle-Felton - Remembered (Dialogue)
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Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie (Orion)
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Mary Jean Chan - Fleche (Faber)
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Romesh Gunesekera - Suncatcher (Bloomsbury)
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Johny Pitts - Afropean: Notes From Black Europe (Allen Lane)
Long list
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Johny Pitts - Afropean: Notes From Black Europe (Allen Lane)
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Jasbinder Bilan - Asha and the Spirit Bird (Chicken House)
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Mary Jean Chan - Fleche (Faber)
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Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch (Dialogue)
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Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie (Orion)
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Yvonne Battle-Felton - Remembered (Dialogue)
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Jay Bernard - Surge (Chatto & Windus)
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Dean Atta - The Black Flamingo (Hodder Children’s)
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Claire Adam - Golden Child (Faber)
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Maya Goodfellow - The Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (Verso)
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Niven Govinden - This Brutal House (Dialogue)
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Romesh Gunesekera - Suncatcher (Bloomsbury)
