Jhalak prize
Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour
Jhalak prize
Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour
2021
Winner:
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The First Woman
(Oneworld)
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan novelist and short story writer. She has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel, Kintu (Oneworld, 2018), won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 'Let's Tell This Story Properly', which featured in her first collection, Manchester Happened (Oneworld, 2019). She was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 and lives in Manchester, where she lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2020, she was selected as one of 100 Most Influential Africans by New African magazine.
Short list
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Romalyn Ante - Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus)
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Catherine Cho - Inferno (Bloomsbury Circus)
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Rachel Long - My Darling From the Lions (Picador)
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman (Oneworld Publications)
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Katy Massey - Are We Home Yet (jacaranda)
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Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk (Dialogue Books)
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Long list
![Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi - [re: desire] (Burning Eye Books)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b17758_f33f5e327a4d456ca649f0ad2bb01891~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_171,h_264,q_90/b17758_f33f5e327a4d456ca649f0ad2bb01891~mv2.webp)
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Romalyn Ante - Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus)
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Catherine Cho - Inferno (Bloomsbury Circus)
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Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi - [re: desire] (Burning Eye Books)
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Caleb Femi - Poor (Penguin)
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave - The Mercies (Picador)
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Tammye Huf - A More Perfect Union (Myriad Editions)
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Rachel Long - My Darling From the Lions (Picador)
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Deirdre Mask - The Address Book (Profile Books)
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Katy Massey - Are We Home Yet (jacaranda)
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman (Oneworld Publications)
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Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk (Dialogue Books)
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Stephanie Scott - What’s Left of Me Is Yours (W&N)
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