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Winner of the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize\n\n\nShortlisted for 2023 British Book Awards Book of the Year in the Discover category\n\n\nUsman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education programme he participated in. On 29 November 2019, he sat with others at Fishmongers’ Hall, some of whom he knew. Then he went to the bathroom to retrieve the things he had hidden there: a fake bomb vest and two knives, which he taped to his wrists. That day, he killed two people: Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt.
Preti Taneja's novel We That Are Young won the UK's Desmond Elliott Prize for the finest literary debut of the year, and was listed for international awards including the Folio Prize, the Prix Jan Michalski, and the Shakti Bhatt Prize. It has been translated into several languages. Aftermath won the Gordon Burn Prize, and was shortlisted for a British Book Award. It was a New Yorker Book of the Year. In 2022 Preti Taneja was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures. She is a Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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