‘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.