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Banu Mushtaq, the trailblazing Indian author who made history in May by winning the International Booker Prize for her novel Heart Lamp, says the award marks a collective victory – for literature, for ...

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In winning the International Booker Prize for 2025, Banu Mushtaq has scripted history on several counts. Her book Heart Lamp, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, is the first collection ...

Writer, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq's short story collection 'Heart Lamp' on Tuesday night became the first Kannada title to win the coveted GBP 50,000 International Booker Prize in London.

Her Booker Prize-winning project marks the first book-length translation of her work into English (thanks to Deepa Bhasti). It was previously translated into Urdu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam.

Indian author, translator win International Booker Prize Rana Taha with AFP, AP 05/21/2025 Banu Mushtaq is the first author of Kannada-language literature to receive the award for translated fiction.

The prize was announced by best-selling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter, chair of the 2025 judges, at a ceremony in the Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday night.

The stories in Heart Lamp, which is the first winner of the International Booker Prize to be translated from Kannada, spoken by an estimated 65 million people, 38 million as a first language, were ...

From left: the 2025 International Booker Prize jury is chaired by writer English writer and editor Max Porter. The other jurors are Caleb Femi, Sana Goyal, Anton Hur and Beth Orton.