2026
Jhalak Prose Prize
Dates:

Act Normal: Joy and Despair in Postcolonial Britain, Pete Kalu (HopeRoad)

Before We Hit the Ground, SelaliFiamanya (Borough Press) 

Call Me Ishmaelle, Xiaolu Guo (Vintage) 

I Want to Talk to You, Diana Evans (Chatto & Windus) 

The South, Tash Aw (Fourth Estate)

Love Forms, Claire Adam (Faber)

Saraswati, Gurnaik Johal (Serpent’s Tail) 

The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don’t - yet, Keon West (Picador)

Foreign Fruit, Katie Goh (Canongate) 

Minority Rule: Culture Wars and the Rentier Class: Adventures in the Culture War, Ash Sarkar (Bloomsbury)

Hail Mary, Funmi Fetto (Magpie)

Shamiso, Brian Chikwava (Canongate)