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Snapshot of the day

May 21, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

Kannada writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the 2025 International Booker prize 2022 for translated fiction, becoming the first short story collection to take the award. It is the first ever Kannada book, and the second from India as well as South Asia, to win the award, which is given to translated works of fiction published in the UK and Ireland. Described by the author and chair of judges Max Porter as