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Heart Lamp wins 2025 International Booker Prize
- 23 May 2025
- 1 min read
“Heart Lamp,” a short story collection by Banu Mushtaq, translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, became the first Kannada work to win the 2025 International Booker Prize, marking a historic moment for Indian regional literature.
- Heart Lamp features stories portraying women’s struggles under patriarchy, echoing the Bandaya Sahitya movement and highlighting universal themes of gender discrimination.
- The 1970s Bandaya movement ignited literary and social activism around women's rights, and Dalit issues, influencing politics and literature across Karnataka and India.
- International Booker Prize: Formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize, it is a prestigious annual award for translated fiction, honoring the best long-form works or short story collections published in the UK or Ireland. It is awarded by the Booker Prize Foundation, UK.
- The prize awards Great Britain Pound (GBP) 50,000, equally shared between the author and the translator. Additionally, each shortlisted author and translator receives GBP 2,500.
- Indian International Booker Prize Laureates:
| Read more: International Booker Prize 2024 |
