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.

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.