One in five shortlisted authors for top UK literary prizes in 2020 were black
Racial diversity has gradually increased, after no black authors were shortlisted in four of the years between 1996 and 2009
More than a fifth of the authors shortlisted for British literary prizes last year were black, a turnaround for an industry in which no black authors were shortlisted in four of the years between 1996 and 2009.
In 1996, there was not a single black author shortlisted in prize shortlists analysed by the Guardian, but that figure jumped to 21% in 2020.
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