International Booker Prize 2025

            International Booker Prize 2025 

International Booker Prize 2025: Recently, Heart Lamp, a collection of 12 short stories by Kannada writer, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq, won the International Booker Prize 2025. 

Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada writer to win the International Booker Prize in 2025 for her collection of short stories titled "Heart Lamp."

၀ This marks a historic first for both Kannada literature and for a short story collection in the prize’s history.

၀ Translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, the collection spans stories written between 1990 and 2023, offering poignant insights into the lives of Muslim women facing patriarchy, poverty, and spiritual longing.

• About the International Booker Prize: Awarded annually for a single fiction book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

၀ Prize Money: £50,000, shared equally between the author and the translator.

၀ Launched in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize, initially held biennially.

၀ Became an annual prize in 2016, open to living authors of any nationality.

၀ Renamed the International Booker Prize in 2019.

၀ Eligible Works: Both novels and short story collections.

၀ First Indian Winner: Geetanjali Shree for her Hindi novel Tomb of Sand in 2022.

၀ In 2024, Alhierd Bacharevič won the International Booker Prize for his novel Alindarka’s Children, translated into English by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid.