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2026
Jhalak Prose Prize
Dates:
Shortlist announcement:
14 April 2026
Winner announcement:
10 June 2026
Long list

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Act Normal: Joy and Despair in Postcolonial Britain, Pete Kalu (HopeRoad)
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Before We Hit the Ground, SelaliFiamanya (Borough Press)
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Call Me Ishmaelle, Xiaolu Guo (Vintage)
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I Want to Talk to You, Diana Evans (Chatto & Windus)
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The South, Tash Aw (Fourth Estate)
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Love Forms, Claire Adam (Faber)
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Saraswati, Gurnaik Johal (Serpent’s Tail)
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The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don’t - yet, Keon West (Picador)
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Foreign Fruit, Katie Goh (Canongate)
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Minority Rule: Culture Wars and the Rentier Class: Adventures in the Culture War, Ash Sarkar (Bloomsbury)
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Hail Mary, Funmi Fetto (Magpie)
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Shamiso, Brian Chikwava (Canongate)
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