< Back to Organizations
South Asian Britain Connecting Histories Logo

The Jhalak Prize

Literary awards that celebrate writers of colour in the UK and Ireland

About

Established in 2017 by Sunny Singh, Nikesh Shukla and Media Diversified, the Jhalak Prize was originally a single award given to a book by a UK or Ireland-based writer of colour. In 2020 the prize was expanded to include an award for a children's or YA (young adult) book, and in 2024 it was further expanded to include a poetry award. South Asian British winners include Guy Gunaratne in 2019, Saba Khan in 2022 and Hiba Noor Khan in 2024.

Sunny Singh

See: Jhalak Prize website, https://www.jhalakprize.com/

Banner image credit

Inside the Ayahs’ Home, Living London, 1904, Shelfmark: 10349.h.12, Courtesy of British Library Board

Public Domain

Image credit

© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present

Themes and tags

Citation: ‘Jhalak Prize’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain.org/organizations/the-jhalak-prize/. Accessed: 30 August 2025.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International