2025
Jhalak Prose Prize Winner
N.S. Nuseibeh
Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman
(Canongate)
N.S.Nuseibeh is a British-Palestinian writer and researcher, born and raised in East Jerusalem. Her interests include issues around identity, ethics, inequality and education. 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.
Short list
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Everest, Ashani Lewis (Dialogue)
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Manny and the Baby, Varaidzo (Scribe)
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My Friends, Hisham Matar (Penguin Viking)
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Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman, N.S. Nuseibeh (Canongate)
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The Rest of You, Maame Blue (Verve)
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Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain, Aniefiok Ekpoudom (Faber)
Long list
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Onyi Nwabineli (Magpie)
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Determination, Tawseef Khan (Footnote)
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Dispersals, Jessica J. Lee (Hamish Hamilton)
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Everest, Ashani Lewis (Dialogue)
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Manny and the Baby, Varaidzo (Scribe)
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My Friends, Hisham Matar (Penguin Viking)
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Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman, N.S. Nuseibeh (Canongate)
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The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre)
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The Strangers, Ekow Eshun (Hamish Hamilton)
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The Rest of You, Maame Blue (Verve)
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The Thirty Before Thirty List, Tasneem Abdur-Rashid (Zaffre)
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Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain, Aniefiok Ekpoudom (Faber)
