It& #39;s nearly time for @SILeedsLitPrize 2020 winner announcement! The biennial prize celebrates the most exciting unpublished fiction by UK Black and Asian Women.

We& #39;re looking back at previous shortlisted writers, looking at what the prize meant for them and where they are now.

Minoli Salgado was the Prize’s first winner in 2012 with her novel ‘A Little Dust on The Eyes’. A tale of displacement and desire set in coastal Sri Lanka. Two cousins are reunited after the brutal civil war, but their lives are to be upturned once again as a tsunami hits…

The novel was published by @peepaltreepress in Oct 2014. It went on to be longlisted for @TheDSCPrize for South Asian Lit. and was translated into Slovene as part of the #EchoesOfRealities project.

Salgado’s latest release, a collection of short stories ‘Broken Jaw’, reflects on silences both official and unofficial after the Sri Lankan civil war. It was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize @PrizeRofc and longlisted for @theOrwellPrize for Political Fiction.

Watch Salgado read from & #39;Broken Jaw& #39; here https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lK2ZGiTB98&ab_channel=RepublicofConsciousness">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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