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Heart Lamp: Banu Mushtaq wins Booker Prize for Kannada short story collection

This is the second Indian book to win the international booker prize in three years after Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell won the 2022 award

Published on: May 21, 2025, 06:15:29 IST

By Dhrubo Jyoti, New Delhi

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Banu Mushtaq wrote her first short story when she was in middle school in Karnataka’s Hassan town in the 1950s. That journey came full circle on Wednesday as the 77-year-old writer, lawyer and activist scripted history by winning the international booker prize along with her translator Deepa Bhasthi, becoming the first Kannada writer to clinch the prestigious award.

Kannada writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq has won the International Booker prize for the short story anthology, Heart Lamp. ((X/KiranKS))

The winning book, Heart Lamp – a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of 30 years that exquisitely captured

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...Read MoreDhrubo works as an edit resource and writes at the intersection of caste, gender, sexuality and politics. Formerly trained in Physics, abandoned a study of the stars for the glitter of journalism. Fish out of digital water. Read Less

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