An extraordinary author-translator collaboration produced a book, “Heart Lamp,” that was lauded for enriching the English ...

A book translated from the Indian language of Kannada has won this year’s International ... was named the 2025 winner of the International Booker Prize. Also on the six-strong shortlist was ...

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more than 30 ...

The Booker Prize website states that an estimated 65 million people speak Kannada. Last year, it became the 53rd language of Vatican Radio. But like many other Indian languages, Kannada has often ...

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the 2025 International Booker prize. Here, our literature experts review the book and the other five novels that were shortlisted for the prize.

Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, the book won the Booker from a list ... Prize, with Bhasthi becoming the first Indian translator to win the award, according to the BBC. The 12 stories in ...

The Booker Prize website states that an estimated 65 million people speak Kannada. Last year, it became the 53rd language of Vatican Radio. But like many other Indian languages, Kannada has often been ...

In May 2025, Karnataka's 77-year-old writer, lawyer, and social activist became the first Kannada writer to receive the International Booker Prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp ...

Originally written in Kannada, Heart Lamp was selected and translated by Deepa, who became the first Indian translator to win the International Booker ... about those early years, of being ...

Mushtaq has championed Kannada literature and shares prize with translator Deepa Bhasthi Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi receive the 2025 International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp. ANI Banu Mushtaq ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so. Translated by Deepa Bhasthi, it is also the first book originally published in ...

An International Booker Prize-shortlisted ... Council Literature Prize. Ms Haveland said she had been about to retire when Ms Balle, whom she had worked with almost 30 years earlier, contacted ...