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Ashani Lewis is a novelist and short-story writer based in London. Ashani was a winner of the London Writers Awards 2021, in the literary fiction category. Her writing has won the Tower Poetry Prize and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Competition, as well as being featured in Harper’s Bazaar and Joyland.
Ashani’s second novel, Everest, has been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prose Prize 2025. The winners will be announced on 4 June.
Congratulations Ashani!
The Jhalak Prize awards seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in the UK and Ireland. Find out more about the prize and other shortlisted and longlisted authors on the Jhalak Prize website.