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International Booker 2025 winner
May 26 , 2025
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- Kannada author Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp wins International Booker Prize 2025
- It was translated by Deepa Bhasthi.
- It’s a first win for Kannada language.
- This is also the first time in the history of the prize that a collection of short stories has been honoured.
- It was from a shortlist featuring books in French, Italian, Danish, and Japanese.
- The award for an Indian writer comes three years after Geetanjali Shree won for Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell.
- This marks only the second time a Kannada author has been recognised by the Booker institutions
- The first was U R Ananthamurthy’s nomination in 2013 for his body of work.
- Bhasthi, meanwhile, has become the first Indian translator to win the prize.
- She won the English PEN’s ‘PEN Translates’ award for the same work in 2024.
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