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

Diana Evans
Diana Evans won the prose prize for her book I Want to Talk to You. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Diana 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.

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