We write to you live from the International Booker Prize 2025 ceremony at Tate Modern in London where tonight Heart Lamp becomes the first short-story collection to win the world’s most influential award for translated fiction. The £50,000 prize is split 50:50 between author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi, giving each equal recognition.
Announcing Heart Lamp as winner, Chair of the 2025 judges Max Porter said the book ‘is something genuinely new for English readers: a radical translation’ of ‘beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories’.
Announcing Heart Lamp as winner, Chair of the 2025 judges Max Porter said the book ‘is something genuinely new for English readers: a radical translation’ of ‘beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories’.