The writer and advocate Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won this year's International Booker Prize for their book Heart Lamp. The book is the first short story collection to win the ...

Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize Award, Heart Lamp is a collection of short stories from Banu Mushtaq, capturing ...

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 ...

The book chronicles the resilience, resistance, wit, and sisterhood of everyday women in patriarchal communities in southern ...

JCB Prize for Literature is shutting down,” the blog post announced, adding, “…I believe this is long overdue… because prizes like the JCB had quietly become tools of cultural and intellectual ...

By Pragati K.B. Banu Mushtaq’s book “Heart Lamp” last month became the first story collection to win the International Booker ...

turning them into mere subordinates,” she told Booker Prize. The stories in Heart Lamp were drawn from around 50 works across six of her collections published since 1990. Mushtaq writes ...

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 ...

In a night of many firsts, Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp (And Other Stories), translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, won the 2025 International Booker Prize. Announced the night of May 20 in ...

Heart Lamp is her first book-length translation into English. With this win, Mushtaq becomes only the second Indian writer ever to be awarded the International Booker Prize. Bhasthi, a writer and ...