Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:28am on 21 May 2025,Wednesday India
In a landmark moment for Indian literature, Heart Lamp, a collection of 12 Kannada short stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the 2025 International Booker Prize. This is the first time a Kannada work and a short story collection have received the honor. The book explores the inner lives of Muslim women in southern India, addressing themes like faith, caste, and gender. Judges praised the work’s emotional intensity and cultural richness, while commending Bhasthi’s radical and inventive translation that retained the original’s linguistic nuances. (PC: Getty Images)
