Yepoka Yeebo takes home 2024 Jhalak prize for writers of colour
Author of Anansi’s Gold, a nonfiction account of a notorious Ghanian conman ‘told with biting wit’, wins £1,000 award
May 2023
Travis Alabanza and Danielle Jawando win 2023 Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Judges described None of the Above, Alabanza’s memoir about being genderqueer, as ‘desperately important’, and said every teenager should read Jawando’s young adult novel When Our Worlds Collided
May 2022
Sabba Khan and Maisie Chan triumph in Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Khan wins for her ‘timeless’ debut graphic novel, The Roles We Play, while Chan takes the children’s and YA award for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
May 2021
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence win Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Makumbi wins book of the year for her novel The First Woman, while Lawrence takes inaugural children’s books prize for Eight Pieces of Silva
May 2020
Johny Pitts wins Jhalak prize for 'beautiful' history of black Europe
Television presenter and musician wins £1,000 prize for writers of colour, with ‘exceptionally thoughtful’ debut Afropean
May 2019
'The London book of our lifetime': Guy Gunaratne wins Jhalak prize
In Our Mad and Furious City, which was spurred by the murder of Lee Rigby and nominated for the Man Booker prize, takes the award for writers of colour
March 2018
Reni Eddo-Lodge wins Jhalak prize for British writers of colour
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race praised for ‘holding up a mirror to contemporary Britain’
February 2018
Books blog
Awards for women, writers of colour, small presses – why are there so many books prizes?
Claire Armitstead
There are so many literary prizes these days that they could be regarded as an industry in their own right – but they’re needed to change the status quo
April 2017
Tory MP's complaint that prize for writers of colour was unfair to whites dismissed
Philip Davies had complained to the Equality and Human Rights Commission that the Jhalak prize breached discrimination rules
March 2017
Caribbean crime thriller wins inaugural prize for only BAME writers
Literature report shows British readers stuck in very white past
February 2017
All-white Carnegie medal longlist provokes anger from children's authors
Philip Pullman, Alex Wheatle and Alan Gibbons among authors speaking out against ‘appalling’ exclusion of acclaimed books by leading BAME writers
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway awards announce 2017 longlists
The UK’s most prestigious children’s book prizes reveal finalists, provoking anger among some that the Carnegie choices include no BAME authors
David Olusoga and Gary Younge head inaugural Jhalak prize shortlist
History and reportage line up against fiction and a children’s book in contention for new award honouring UK BAME authors
January 2017
Shappi Khorsandi review – comic's cheering vision of an inclusive England
The Iranian-born comic, marking 40 years since her arrival in the UK, makes a compelling argument for the multifaceted nature of nationhood
Meet the new faces of fiction for 2017
A fortysomething who is still ‘pinching herself’ at starting a publishers’ bidding war. A woman who fell under the spell of witches. And a film critic with widescreen ambitions: these are some of the stories behind our pick of 2017’s debut novelists
Shappi Khorsandi withdraws book from Jhalak prize longlist
New British books prize for BAME authors unveils inaugural longlist
Books blog
What's your new year's reading resolution?
December 2016
Number of BAME arts workers must improve, says Arts Council report
Black and minority ethnic people make up 17% of English arts workforce and disabled people account for 4%, report finds
