Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so.

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection ...

Kannada writer, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on Wednesday scripted history by winning the ...

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi and published by And Other Stories, is the first short story ...

It is a crowning moment for Indian, especially Kannada, literature that Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the International ...

Max Porter, Chair of the 2025 International Booker Prize judges, praised Heart Lamp as a standout from the outset. “This was ...

Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, the book won the Booker from a list of six novels, which were shortlisted for the ...

This year’s International Booker Prize was awarded to Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp,’ a collection of short stories written in Kannada. As with Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand,’ it lights up a path we ...

The author and activist shares award with translator Deepa Bhasthi; win also throws spotlight on the Kannada language, widely ...

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, a collection of Kannada short stories translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the 2025 ...

It’s a riposte to colonisation, where the coloniser’s language is owned and transformed by those from a former colony to win ...