Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so.

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before ...

Max Porter, Chair of the 2025 International Booker Prize judges, praised Heart Lamp as a standout from the outset. “This was ...

Heart Lamp, written by author, women’s rights activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the ...

The 77- year-old Indian activist is the first Kannada-language author to win the award, which also recognizes the work of ...

The collection of 12 short stories, written over three decades, highlights marginalized voices resonating globally. Deepa ...

Heart Lamp, the first short-story collection to win the award, is also the first to have been translated from Kannada ...

With the International Booker Prize’s second incarnation in its 10th year, judges Max Porter and Sana Goyal talk about how literary translation is needed now more than ever. I mention nine years ...

This year's International Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, shines a unique spotlight on Kannada, the official language of the southern Indian state of Karnataka ...

The Booker Prize-winning novelist was about to speak in front of an audience at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York when Matar rushed at him onstage, slashing him more than a dozen times.