All about Banu Mushtaq and her International Booker Prize 2025 winning book ‘Heart Lamp’

What did the Jury say about the book?

Jury Chair Max Porter remarked, “Heart Lamp is something genuinely new for English readers. A radical translation…. These beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories rise from Kannada.. speaks of women’s lives, reproductive rights, faith, caste, power and oppression.”