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

NEW DELHI – Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, a searing collection by Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq and translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, has been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker ...

The work was translated from Kannada into English by Deepa Bhasthi, who shares the prize with Mushtaq. Mushtaq, a prolific and widely celebrated literary figure in Karnataka, has published six ...

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