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Indian author Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize with short story collection

Banu Mushtaq, an Indian author and social activist, along with Deepa Bhasthi, who translated her work, received the 2025 International Booker Prize for their collaborative short story collection, Heart Lamp.
They won the award after judges chose Heart Lamp from a pool of 154 submissions, making it the inaugural short story collection to receive this honor.
Heart Lamp presents 12 stories written between 1990 and 2023 about girls and women in southern India's Muslim communities, exploring caste, class, faith, and oppression.
Max Porter, the head judge, commended Heart Lamp for offering a fresh and unique perspective to readers in English, while the £50,000 prize money was divided equally between Mushtaq and Bhasthi.
Mushtaq hailed her achievement as a significant milestone for promoting inclusion and amplifying voices from underrepresented regional languages such as Kannada.

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