LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 20: Chair of Judges Max Porter (L) with Banu Mushtaq, author of “Heart Lamp”, (C) and Deepa Bhasthi, translator, winners of The International Booker Prize 2025 onstage at the Tate Modern on May 20, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images) For the very first time, a woman who…
What did the Jury say about the book? Jury Chair Max Porter remarked, “Heart Lamp is something genuinely new for English readers. A radical translation…. These beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories rise from Kannada.. speaks of women’s lives, reproductive rights, faith, caste, power and oppression.” [title_words_as_hashtags
Indian author, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq just made history—and in the best way possible. She’s bagged the International Booker Prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp, making it the very first time a work in Kannada has ever won the coveted award. The stories, originally written in Kannada and beautifully translated into English…
