Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book “Heart Lamp” is also the first short story collection to do so. “Heart Lamp” ...

The 77-year-old Mushtaq, who has worked as a lawyer, an activist and a reporter previously, has been writing in Kannada for over four decades now, and the 12 stories in Heart Lamp have been chosen ...

Banu Mushtaq, author of "Heart Lamp," right, and Deepa Bhasthi hold the trophies after winning the International Booker Prize, in London, Tuesday, May 20, 2025.(Alberto Pezzali/AP) Indian writer ...

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book “ Heart Lamp ” is also the first short story collection to do so.

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book “ Heart Lamp ” is also the first short story collection to do so.

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a ...

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book “ Heart Lamp ” is also the first short story collection to do so. “Heart Lamp” ...

"Heart Lamp" -- a collection of 12 stories originally published in Kannada between 1990 and 2023 -- was the only work on the shortlist that was not a novel and was not expected to win the award ...

Heart Lamp was published simultaneously by And Other Stories, an independent not-for-profit publisher in the UK, and Penguin Random House India. The prize money — a generous £50,000 — was ...

"So the English in Heart Lamp is an English with a very deliberate Kannada hum to it." The judges for this year's prize had to whittle the list down from 154 books submitted by publishers.