Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...

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

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before ...

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

The International Booker Prize 2025 has been awarded to 'Heart Lamp', a collection of 12 short stories by Kannada author Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi. The book chronicles the lives and ...

Heart Lamp, written by author, women’s rights activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the ...

The collection of 12 short stories, written over three decades, highlights marginalized voices resonating globally. Deepa ...

Heart Lamp, the first short-story collection to win the award, is also the first to have been translated from Kannada ...

Banu Mushtaq, who is an Indian writer-lawyer and an activist, has created history by becoming the first Kannada writer to win ...