Heart Lamp burns bright, wins the Booker Prize for Banu and Deepa:

Heart Lamp burns bright, wins the Booker Prize for Banu and Deepa:

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Category : Awards Published on: May 23 2025

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  • Kannada writer, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq, 77, began writing about her people, their joys, sorrows and anxieties, over five decades ago.
  • Heart Lamp, a collection of 12 short stories selected from her work written between 1990 and 2023 and translated by Deepa Bhasthi, won the International Booker Prize for 2025 from a shortlist featuring books in French, Italian, Danish, and Japanese.
  • It’s a first win for Kannada, and the first time in the history of the prize that a collection of short stories has been honoured.
  • The award for an Indian writer comes three years after Geetanjali Shree won the prestigious literary prize for Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell.
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