‘Pleasure and invigoration’: Diana Evans wins UK’s Jhalak prose prize
Diana Evans won the prose prize for her book I Want to Talk to You. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The GuardianView image in fullscreenDiana Evans won the prose prize for her book I Want to Talk to You. She “weaves stories of colonial past and Black British present”.Previous winners of the prize include Reni Eddo-Lodge, Guy Gunaratne and Travis Alabanza.Explore more on these topicsBooksJhalak prizeDiana EvansPoetryChildren and teenagersAwards and prizesIrelandnewsShareReuse this content
- ▪Diana Evans won the prose prize for her book I Want to Talk to You.
- ▪Photograph: Linda Nylind/The GuardianView image in fullscreenDiana Evans won the prose prize for her book I Want to Talk to You.
- ▪She “weaves stories of colonial past and Black British present”.Previous winners of the prize include Reni Eddo-Lodge, Guy Gunaratne and Travis Alabanza.Explore more on these topicsBooksJhalak prizeDiana EvansPoetryChildren and teenagersAwa
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Diana Evans won the prose prize for her book I Want to Talk to You. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The GuardianView image in fullscreenDiana Evans won the prose prize for her book I Want to Talk to You. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The GuardianBooks‘Pleasure and invigoration’: Diana Evans wins UK’s Jhalak prose prizeAwards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000Ella CreamerWed 10 Jun 2026 14.30 EDTLast modified on Wed 10 Jun 2026 15.29 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleDiana 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…
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