Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq International Booker Prize 2025 winners

Heart Lamp wins the International Booker Prize 2025

Banu Mushtaq’s book, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, becomes the first collection of short stories and the first title originally written in Kannada to win the prize. Find out more here

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Everything you need to know about Heart Lamp, winner of the International Booker Prize 2025

As Heart Lamp becomes the first short-story collection to win the International Booker Prize, here’s everything you need to know about the book, its author and translator

Ambika Mod reads an extract from Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq translated by Deepa Bhasthi

Watch Ambika Mod read an extract from Heart Lamp

Reading guide: Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi

An extract from Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi

Image of Heart Lamp book cover, author and translator

An interview with Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, author and translator of Heart Lamp

The International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

On the Calculation of Volume I

by Solvej Balle

Translated by Barbara J. Haveland

Small Boat

by Vincent Delecroix

Translated by Helen Stevenson

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

by Hiromi Kawakami

Translated by Asa Yoneda

Perfection

by Vincenzo Latronico

Translated by Sophie Hughes

Heart Lamp

by Banu Mushtaq (prize winner)

Translated by Deepa Bhasthi

A Leopard-Skin Hat

by Anne Serre

Translated by Mark Hutchinson

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Coming soon: the Booker Prize 2025

The Booker Prize 2025 at a glance

The Booker Prize 2025 judges are: 1993 Booker winner Roddy Doyle (Chair); Booker-longlisted authors Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Kiley Reid; actor, producer and publisher Sarah Jessica Parker; and writer and critic Chris Power. The longlist will be announced on 29 July 2025, the shortlist will be announced on 23 September, and the winner will be announced on 10 November

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