Jhalak Prize 2018

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First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers.

Challenge Prompts

1. ‘Why I ‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo-Lodge

2. ‘The Golden Legend’ by Nadeem Aslam

3. 'Kumakanda’ by Kayo Chongonyi

4. ‘Once Upon a Time in the East’ by Xialou Guo

5. ‘When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’ by Meena Kandasamy

6. ‘The Island at the End of Everything’ by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

7. ‘Come All You Little Persons’ by John Agard

8. ‘Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime’ by Jeffrey Boakye

9. ‘Worry Angels’ by Sita Brahmachari

10. ‘Bone’ by Yrsa Daley-Ward

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