‘Pleasure and invigoration’: Diana Evans wins UK’s Jhalak prose prize

Awards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000Diana Evans has won this year’s Jhalak prose prize for I Want to Talk to You, a nonfiction collection on subjects ranging from Jean Rhys and Toni Morrison to lockdowns and the British monarchy.The book, described as a “pleasure and an invigoration” by the Guardian’s reviewer Alex Clark, was announced as the 10th winner at a reception on Wednesday evening. Continue reading...

Awards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000Diana Evans has won this year’s Jhalak prose prize for I Want to Talk to You, a nonfiction collection on subjects ranging from Jean Rhys and Toni Morrison to lockdowns and the British monarchy.The book, described as a…

Awards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000Diana Evans has won this year’s Jhalak prose prize for I Want to Talk to You, a nonfiction collection on subjects ranging from Jean Rhys and Toni Morrison to lockdowns and the British monarchy.The book, described as a “pleasure and an invigoration” by the Guardian’s reviewer Alex Clark, was announced as the 10th winner at a reception on Wednesday evening. Continue reading...