Indian activist author wins 2025 International Booker Prize with short story collection | South China Morning Post

Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq won the 2025 International Booker Prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp, in London on May 20, 2025. The 77-year-old is the first author of literature in the Kannada language – which is spoken predominantly in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka – to recei…

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