Watch Ambika Mod read from Heart Lamp, the #InternationalBooker2025 winning book written by Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi.

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Heart Lamp Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq Translated by Deepa Bhasthi The cover of this paperback book is in the house style of the publisher And Other Stories, showing a text extract from the book

A collection of twelve short stories written between 1990 & 2023 and winner of the #InternationalBooker2025

I seldom read short stories, but was inspired by the translator Deepa Bhasthi to read these, which were originally written in Kannada by the accomplished lawyer & activist Banu Mushtaq.

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The waiting game in Kodagu In mid-August 2018, people in far-flung villages of Kodagu – a district of 554,000 in Karnataka – reported hearing a sound they described as the explosion of a

From October 2018: "The inventory of ruin soon began to grow long. Mountains were slipping down and their debris was covering paddy fields," writes the winner of #InternationalBooker2025, Deepa Bhasthi:

The caste of Karnatic music The story of the world, if you think about it, is really a history of erasures. It is characterised by the effacement of women's triumphs or the furtive rubbing

From July 2020: "Matters of caste are routinely swept under the rug by stakeholders in the Karnatic world," writes the winner of #InternationalBooker2025, Deepa Bhasthi:

Shock and awe: The many lives of Malayalam magical realism What has to happen to the world for the animals to start talking? In S Hareesh's novel Moustache, a whole menagerie has something to say. Crocodiles seek reveng

From June 2021: "As a genre, magic realism remains popular in Malayalam culture, not just in literary works, but also in cinematic forms," writes the winner of #InternationalBooker2025, Deepa Bhasthi: buff.ly/1mPqbJ3

“This is not just my victory, but a chorus of voices often left unheard. A thousand fireflies lighting a single sky, brief, brilliant and utterly collective.”

~ Banu Mushtaq in her acceptance speech.

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📢 Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi for winning the #InternationalBooker2025 with Heart Lamp 👏

Discover what students from @kingsdllc.bsky.social thought of the winning book 👇
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Accident zone, drive slow And then there was another.This time, it happened in the sharp heat of midday, just after she had finished the day's cooking, sweeping the house, and throwing s

June 2023: “To her, the accidents all looked the same, and the government was never known to do anything anyway.” Don’t miss the thought-provoking ‘Accident zone, drive slow’ by the winner of #InternationalBooker2025, Deepa Bhasthi: buff.ly/pJr5Pd7
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#Kannada stories win #InternationalBooker2025. This is the first Booker prize for #KannadaLiterature. #HeartLamp is a collection of stories in Kannada by @BanuMushtaq. The English translation has been done by #DeepaBhasthi! Tag : @thebookerprizes.bsky.social #BanuMushtaq youtu.be/uVH0blFhSFc

This is amazing! Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi for their amazing, refreshing & eye-opening short story collection, Heart Lamp. Congratulations also to @andotherstories.bsky.social. 🥳🥳🥳 The other shortlisted books were all so deserving. #InternationalBooker2025

We’re thrilled that #PENPresents & #PENTranslates award-winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, trans. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi has won the #InternationalBooker2025, the first work translated from Kannada to appear on the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to the winners!

Watch the moment Heart Lamp was announced as the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025, and hear what Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi said in their speeches.

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Watch the moment Heart Lamp was announced as the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025.

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Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi has won the 2025 International Booker Prize and I'm honestly surprised. I thought that it would for sure be Small Boat or Under the Eye of the Big Bird but I'm pleased anyway. #InternationalBooker2025

‘This was the book the judges really loved, right from our first reading’

We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025 is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi.

Here's everything you need to know about the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Join us over on Instagram and TikTok for the #InternationalBooker2025 red carpet highlights, hosted by Suzi Ruffell.

Tonight's the night! Tune in from 10pm BST / 5pm EDT / 2:30am IST to hear the #InternationalBooker2025 winner as it's announced.

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Neha Veera reviews Heart Lamp 🔽

'Fellow Indian readers may be quick to recognise the colloquialisms interspersed throughout the English translation, a nice touch of authenticity maintained from the original version written in Kannada.'

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Here's how to join us at the #InternationalBooker2025 ceremony this evening:

➡️ From 7:30pm BST, we'll be sharing highlights from the red carpet over on our Instagram and TikTok

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We Have a Decision! Our Shadow Panel picks their 2025 International Booker winner...

We on the shadow panel have chosen our winner of the #InternationalBooker2025, in advance of tomorrow's official announcement. We chose On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J. Haveland). More info here: shadowingtheibp.substack.com/p/we-have-a-...

Ginevra Zambardi reviews Perfection for #InternationalBooker2025 ⤵️

'With surgical descriptive precision and detachment, Latronico offers a mirror to recognise ourselves in: how much of what we call “living” is really performance?'

It's one day until the announcement of the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025. The winner will be announced on Tuesday (20 May 2025) at 10 pm BST. Take a look back at my read-through of the listed books below. 📚🥳 Who do you think will win? @thebookerprizes.bsky.social

Our shadow panel picked their winner for the 2025 International Booker Prize. Ahead of the official decision. Which book do you feel will emerge as the winner of the official contest? Which one is your favorite? #InternationalBooker2025 shadowingtheibp.substack.com/p/we-have-a-...

Stream the #InternationalBooker2025 winner announcement as it happens – watch live from our ceremony in London on Tuesday 20 May, from 10pm BST: youtube.com/watch?v=_OFR...

A super evening at the
#InternationalBooker2025 Translators’ Showcase event - part of the Translated By, Bristol Festival.

So interesting to hear 5 of the shortlisted translators speak about their books and literary translation in general.

I’ve read 4 of the books so far; had to buy another!
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Ooh! Will need to set aside the time for this! Here in Australia, the readings will be live on Monday 19 May 2025 at 4:45 a.m. so too early but I think I can catch up in the morning. 😅 But my UK friends can tune in this Sunday 18 May 2025 at 7.45 p.m. Deets below! #InternationalBooker2025

On The Calculation of Volume 1 by Solvej Balle Translated by Barbara J. Haveland

An intriguing literary novel, shortlisted for the
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For Tara, every day is 18 November. Her husband and everyone else is experiencing it for the first time; she has repeated this day many times.

This book proper did my head in - in a good way!
What would you do?

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Sneaky, not a love story and a mystery - we asked the translators shortlisted for #InternationalBooker2025 to describe their books.

Which will you be picking up first?

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