Jhalak Prize Longlist 2025 - Prose

anna_oreally Host

2 participants (12 books)

20 Mar 2024—20 Mar 2026

Overview

Awarded to the best prose works by writers of colour. Longlist published 18th March; shortlist announced April 22nd. Winner announced 4th June 2025

Challenge Books

1

Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli

Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Onyi Nwabineli

Determination by Tawseef Khan

Determination

Tawseef Khan

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

Jessica J. Lee

Everest by Ashani Lewis

Everest

Ashani Lewis

Manny and the Baby by Varaidzo

Manny and the Baby

Varaidzo

My Friends by Hisham Matar

My Friends

Hisham Matar

Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman by N.S. Nuseibeh

Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman

N.S. Nuseibeh

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley

The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun

The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them

Ekow Eshun

The Rest of You by Maame Blue

The Rest of You

Maame Blue

The Thirty Before Thirty List by Tasneem Abdur-Rashid

The Thirty Before Thirty List

Tasneem Abdur-Rashid

Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom

Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain

Aniefiok Ekpoudom