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2024
Jhalak prize winner:
Yepoka Yeebo
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Swindled The World
(Bloomsbury)
Long list
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River Spirit, Leila Aboulela (Saqi Books)
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Self-Portrait as Othello, Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet)
- Azucar, Nii Ayikwwei Parkes (Peepal Tree Press)
- Small Worlds, Caleb Azumah Nelson (Penguin)
- Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (Penguin)
- Bright Fear, Mary Jean Chan (Faber)
- Fire Rush, Jacqueline Crooks (Vintage)
- Elsewhere, Yan Ge (Faber)
- A Flat Place, Noreen Masud (Penguin)
- A Pebble in the Throat, Aasmah Mir (Headline)
- Boundary Road, Ami Rao (Everything With Words)
- Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Swindled The World, Yepoka Yeebo (Bloomsbury)
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YEPOKA YEEBO’s work has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, the Guardian, Quartz, and other publications. She has been interviewed on PRI’s The World and NPR’s All Things Considered. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism and the University of London, Yeebo divides her time between London, UK, and Accra, Ghana. Anansi’s Gold is her first book.
Short list
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A Flat Place, Noreen Masud (Penguin)
- Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Swindled The World, Yepoka Yeebo (Bloomsbury)
- Boundary Road, Ami Rao (Everything With Words)
- Fire Rush, Jacqueline Crooks (Vintage)
- Self-Portrait as Othello, Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet)
- Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (Penguin)
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