Shortlists have been selected for the 2024 Jhalak Prize and Jhalak Children's & YA Prize, celebrating "books by writers of colour in Britain and Ireland." Winners, each of whom receive £1,000 (about $1,245), will be announced May 30.
The shortlist for the Jhalak Prize:
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
Boundary Road by Ami Rao
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
The shortlist for the Jhalak Children's & YA Prize:
Geoffrey Gets the Jitters by Nadia Shireen
How to Die Famous by Benjamin Dean
Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan
Steady for This by Nathaneal Lessore
To the Other Side by Erika Meza
Wild Song by Candy Gourlay
