Winners have been named for the 2025 Jhalak Prize, which celebrates books by writers of color in the U.K. and Ireland. The Guardian reported that N.S. Nuseibeh's Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman, a "timely" and "timeless" essay collection, took the prose award, with Mimi Khalvati's Collected Poems winning the inaugural poetry prize and the children's and YA honors going to Nathanael Lessore for King of Nothing. Each of the winners receives £1,000 (about $1,355).
"These are books full of courage, insight and panache," said prize director Sunny Singh. "They compassionately and with utmost honesty confront terrible realities and explore painful and complex histories and lives even as they exemplify playful stylistic experimentation and mastery of form and language."