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

Writer, activist, and lawyer Banu Mushtaq has won the prestigious International Booker Prize 2025 for her short story collection Heart Lamp, the first-ever Kannada work to receive the award. The prize, worth GBP 50,000, was awarded during a ceremony at the Tate Modern in London, with Mushtaq sharing the stage and the prize money with Deepa Bhasthi, who translated the book into English.