‘Heart Lamp’ Becomes 1st Kannada Title Shortlisted For International Booker Prize 2025

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Category : Awards Published on: April 11 2025

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Banu Mushtaq’s collection of Kannada stories in translation, Heart Lamp, was shortlisted on 8 April 2025 for the International Booker Prize.
The book, among the six featured in this year’s shortlist, made history as the first Kannada-language book to be shortlisted.
Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, is a collection of 12 short stories written by Banu Mushtaq between 1990 and 2023.
Earlier, an English translation of a collection of her short stories, Haseena and Other Stories, won the English PEN translation award for the year 2024.
That was also translated by Deepa Bhasthi.

‘Heart Lamp’ Becomes 1st Kannada Title Shortlisted For International Booker Prize 2025