BBD&P Award Shortlisting for Sabba Kahn and Veronika Muchitsch
A huge congratulations to Sabba Khan and Veronika Muchitsch who have both been shortlisted in this year’s British Book Design & Production Awards (Graphic Novel category) for their works THE ROLES WE PLAY and CYBERMAN.
The BBDPA is a wonderful award and this year’s shortlist is incredibly strong so congratulations to all the shortlisted authors.
Women’s Prize celebrations
Lisa, we are so proud of you! Many thanks and congratulations again to Lisa Allen-Agostini, whose brilliant The Bread The Devil Knead was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Mary Ann Sieghart, chair of the judges, described it as ‘a deeply humane story set in Trinidad which immerses the reader and is full of warmth and humour and sadness’. Lisa is shown here with winner Ruth Ozeki who said of her fellow Women’s Prize shortlisted authors: ‘These are some of the most amazing women writers I have ever met and it’s been such a privilege to be here. Somehow you [the Women’s Prize] make us all feel like winners, and we ARE all winners.’ Congratulations, Ruth, and of course, Lisa, you ARE our winner!
Photo © Margaret Busby
Jhalak Prize win for Sabba Khan
Congratulations to Sabba Khan who has won the Jhalak Prize for book of the year by a British writer of colour with her graphic memoir The Roles We Play. Judge Mary Jean Chan said she read and reread the book, and found it to be ‘a powerful, moving and thought-provoking story which shimmers with hard-earned wisdom and wonder, one that is beautifully written and vividly drawn’.
Sabba Khan talks to Sana Goyal of Wasafiri
‘In this moving and mighty coming-of-age graphic memoir, the artist and architect Sabba Khan explores big ‘isms’ – feminism, colonialism, and racism – alongside questions of identity, memory, family, H/history, Partition, and Islamophobia. And yet, it’s the small objects and memories – chocolate bars and sewing machines – that make her work so special and vulnerable.’ Sana Goyal, Wasafiri, on The Roles We Play by Sabba Khan.
Panel Borders Podcast: Myriad Authors Hannah Eaton and Sabba Khan
On the latest Panel Borders podcast, Hannah Eaton discusses the folk horror and factual influences on her forthcoming graphic novel Blackwood. We also hear from architect and artist Sabba Khan, who relates how her culture, family history and background as an architect are combined in her new book, which we are set to publish in 2021. Listen again now.