Canongate Books and Polygon Books are among the publishers with books longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023, and Barrington Stoke has a book on the Children’s & YA longlist.
None of the Above by Travis Alabanza and Losing the Plot by Derek Owusu are published by Canongate Books, Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed is published by Polygon Books, and the Barrington Stoke book is Needle by Patrice Lawrence (Barrington Stoke).
First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. The shortlists will be announced on 18 April and the winners on 25 May 2023.
The full Jhalak Prize longlist is:
- None of the Above by Travis Alabanza (Canongate Books)
- Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig (Jonathan Cape)
- Takeaway by Angela Hui (Trapeze)
- The Attic Child by Lola Jaye (Pan Books)
- The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph (Dialogue)
- When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton)
- Here Again Now by OkechukwuNzelu (Dialogue)
- Losing the Plot by Derek Owusu (Canongate Books)
- I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel (Rough Trade Books)
- Hiding to Nothing by Anita Pati (Liverpool University Press)
- Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed (Polygon Books)
- The Room Between Us by Denise Saul (Liverpool University Press)
The full Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize longlist is:
- John Agard’s Windrush Child by John Agard, ill. Sophie Bass (Walker Books)
- In Our Hands by Lucy Farfort (Tate)
- Creeping Beauty by Joseph Coelho, ill. Freya Hartas (Walker Books)
- These Are The Words by Nikita Gill (Macmillan Children’s)
- When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando (Simon & Schuster)
- Needle by Patrice Lawrence (Barrington Stoke)
- Mia And The Lightcasters by Janelle McCurdy, ill. Ana Latese (Faber)
- Onyeka And The Academy Of The Sun by Tolá Okogwu (Simon & Schuster)
- Ellie Pillai Is Brown by Christine Pillainayagam (Faber)
- The Haunting of Tyrese Walker by J.P. Rose (Andersen)
- Rebel Skies by Ann Sei Lin (Walker)
- Dadaji’s Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, ill. Ruchi Mhasane (Andersen)
