Context: Writer, activist, and lawyer Banu Mushtaq won the International Booker Prize 2025 for her short story collection Hridaya Deepa (Heart Lamp).
Relevance of the Topic: Prelims: Key facts about International Booker Prize; International Booker Prize 2025.
About Hridaya Deepa (Heart Lamp):
- Hridaya Deepa (Heart Lamp) is a collection of twelve short stories written in Kannada by Banu Mushtaq. It is translated from Kannada to English by Deepa Bhasthi.
- Heart Lamp narrates the everyday lives of Muslim women moved by their lived experiences of pain and suffering in a patriarchal society.
- It became the first Kannada work of literature to be bestowed with the International Booker Prize.
International Booker Prize
- International Booker Prize (formerly Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.
- It is awarded annually to:
- single work of fiction or collection of short stories translated into English (originally written in a language other than English) and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
- The £50,000 prize for the winning title is shared equally between author and translator. It promotes international literature in the English language.