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Jhalak Prize
The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour is an annual literary prize awarded to British or British-resident BAME writers. £1,000 is awarded to the sole winner. The Jhalak Prize launched in 2016 and was created by writers Sunny Singh, Nikesh Shukla Nikesh Shukla (born 8 July 1980) is a British author and screenwriter. His writing focuses on race, racism, identity, and immigration. He is the editor of the 2016 collection of essays '' The Good Immigrant'', which features contributions from ..., and Media Diversified. It is supported by The Authors’ Club and an anonymous donor, and is the second literary prize in the UK to only accept entries by writers of colour, following the SI Leeds Literary Prize for BAME women writers, which was first awarded in 2012. In 2016, the Equality and Human Rights Commission praised: "this award is the type of action which the Commission supports and recommends." Winners References External links Official website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Johnson (novelist)
Catherine Johnson FRSL (born 1962) is a British author and screenwriter. She has written several young adult novels and co-wrote the screenplay for the 2004 drama film '' Bullet Boy'' (directed by and co-written with Saul Dibb). Background and career Catherine Johnson was born in London, England, in 1962. Her father was Jamaican and her mother was Welsh. Johnson grew up in North London and attended Tetherdown Primary School. Later she studied film at St Martin's School of Art, before turning to writing. Her first book, ''The Last Welsh Summer'', was published by Welsh publisher Pont Books in 1993. She has since written and published 20 novels. In 1999 her book ''Landlocked'' was honoured as an International Youth Library White Raven book. Other accolades include the 2014 Young Quills Award for best historical fiction for over-12s for her 2013 book ''Sawbones'', which was also shortlisted for the Rotherham Book Award, the Salford Children's Book Prize and the Hoo Kids B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Gunaratne
Guy Gunaratne (born 1984) is a British journalist, filmmaker and novelist. Gunaratne identifies as non-binary and uses he/they/them pronouns. In 2019 their first novel, ''In Our Mad and Furious City,'' won the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. They are based between London and Malmö, Sweden. Early life and education Gunaratne was born and grew up in Neasden, north west London. Their father had immigrated from Sri Lanka in 1951. They studied for a film and television degree at Brunel University London in London, then studied current affairs journalism at City, University of London. Career With fellow student and girlfriend, Heidi Lindvall, they set up a film production company. They made a film about suppression of the media in Sri Lanka a week after the civil war ended, the success of which allowed them to work in television. Though based in London, the couple followed their work in post-conflict areas around the world, living in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noo Saro-Wiwa
Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British-Nigerian author, noted for her travel writing. She is the daughter of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Education Noo Saro-Wiwa was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and grew up in Ewell, Surrey in England. She attended Roedean School, King's College London and Columbia University, New York, and currently lives in London. Writing Saro-Wiwa's first book was ''Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria'' (Granta Books, 2012). It was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, and was named the ''Sunday Times'' Travel Book of the Year in 2012. It was selected as BBC Radio 4's ''Book of the Week'' in 2012, and was nominated by the ''Financial Times'' as one of the best travel books of 2012. ''The Guardian'' newspaper also included it among its 10 Best Contemporary Books on Africa in 2012. It has been translated into French and Italian. In 2016 it won thAlbatros Travel Literature Prizein Italy. In 2016, she contributed to the anthology ''An Unre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Chok
Vera Chok is a Malaysian actress and writer based in the United Kingdom, who has featured in various stage, screen and radio roles. Since December 2021, she has played Honour Chen-Williams in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. Early and personal life Chok was born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, of Chinese ancestry. After attending Assunta Primary and Secondary schools in Malaysia and Abbots Bromley School in Staffordshire, she graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford, before training as an actor at the Poor School in London and with Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Chok identifies as queer and uses she/they pronouns. Career Chok's main theatre roles have included parts in the award-winning Lucy Kirkwood play '' Chimerica'' (2013), as part of the original cast at the Almeida and Harold Pinter theatres and in ''The World of Extreme Happiness'' (The Shed at the National Theatre, 2013), in which she co-starred with Katie Leung. Chok played the part of Ming Ming, a female migrant w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Byrne
Tanya may refer to: * Tanya (Judaism),an early work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. * Tanya (name), a given name and list of people with the name * Tanya or Lara Saint Paul (born 1946) * List of Mortal Kombat characters#Tanya * Tanya (horse) (1902–1929), the winner of the 1905 Belmont Stakes horse race * ''Tanya'' (1940 film), a Soviet musical comedy by Grigori Aleksandrov * ''Tanya'' (1976 film), a low-budget American comedy * ''Tanya'' (album), a 2002 album by Tanya Tucker * Hurricane Tanya, a storm in the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season * 2127 Tanya, an asteroid * "Tanya", a composition by Donald Byrd, on Dexter Gordon's album ''One Flight Up'' See also * Tania (other) * Tanja (other) * Tonia (other) * Tonya (other) Tonya may refer to: * Tonya (name), the given name, and people by that name * Tonya, Turkey, a town and district of Trabzon Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey * Tonya, Uganda * Ton'ya (問屋 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiran Millwood-Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave (born 29 March 1990) is a British poet, playwright and novelist. Life Hargrave was born on 29 March 1990 in London. She graduated from Cambridge University in 2011, and Oxford University in 2014. Career She started writing for publication in 2009. In 2014, her debut novel ''The Girl Of Ink and Stars'' aka ''The Cartographer's Daughter'' was bought as part of a six-figure, two-book deal by Knopf Random House (US), and Chicken House Scholastic (rest-of-world). It was published in May 2016 in the UK, where it won the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 and the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year. The US release was in November 2016. It has sold to over twenty-five territories around the world, and is a perennial bestseller in the UK. Hargrave's poetry has appeared internationally in journals such as ''Magma'', ''Room'', ''Agenda'', ''Shearsman'', ''The Irish Literary Review'' and '' Orbis''. In 2013, Neil Astley judged her poem 'Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meena Kandasamy
Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Meena published two collections of poetry, ''Touch'' (2006) and ''Ms. Militancy'' (2010). From 2001-2002, she edited ''The Dalit'', a bi-monthly alternative English magazine of the Dalit Media Network. She represented India at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. She writes columns for platforms like Outlook India and ''The Hindu''. Early life and education Born in 1984 to Tamil parents, both university professors, she developed an early interest in poetry, and later adopted the name Meena. She completed a Doctorate of Philosophy in Socio-linguistics from Anna University, Chennai. She began writing poetry at age 17 and began translating books by Dalit writers and leaders into English. Professional career As a writer, Meena's focus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo FRSL () born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist, memoirist and film-maker, who explores migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities. Guo has directed a dozen films including documentaries and fictions. Her most well-known films include She, a Chinese and We Went to Wonderland. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages. '' Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China'' won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017. In 2013, she was named as one of ''Granta'' magazine's Best of Young British Novelists, a list drawn up once a decade. She is one of the inaugural fellows of the Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris, 2018, and a jury member for the Man Booker Prize 2019. She is currently a visiting professor and Writer-in-Residence at Columbia University in New York City. Early life Xiaolu Guo grew up with her illiterate grandparents in a village of fishermen, then wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, ''Kumukanda'' and ''A Blood Condition.'' He has also published two pamphlets, ''Some Bright Elegance'' (Salt, 2012) and ''The Colour of James Brown’s Scream'' (Akashic, 2016). He is a writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode. Chingonyi has won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize and Somerset Maugham Award. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. Biography Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and moved to the UK at the age of six. He has a BA in English literature from the University of Sheffield and an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing Chingonyi's collection, ''Kumukanda'' ( Vintage Publishing, 2017) won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. ''Kumukanda'' was also shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadeem Aslam
Nadeem Aslam FRSL (born 11 July 1966 in Gujranwala, Pakistan) is a British Pakistani novelist. His debut novel, ''Season of the Rainbirds'', won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel '' Maps for Lost Lovers'' won Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; it was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Tóibín described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now". His most recent book is ''The Golden Legend'' (2017). Early life Nadeem Aslam moved with his family to the UK aged 14 when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He later studied biochemistry at the University of Manchester, but left in his third year to become a writer. Career At 13, Aslam published his first short story in Urdu in a Pakistani newspaper. His 1993 debut novel, ''Season of the Rainbirds'', set in rural Pakistan, won the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
