Leaders reducing throughout political events in Karnataka, together with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Wednesday congratulated Kannada author Banu Mushtaq for profitable the Worldwide Booker Prize for her brief story assortment, Coronary heart Lamp, and hailed her because the one who wrote concerning the true values of the land.
Within the first assortment of brief tales to win the Worldwide Booker Prize, Mushtaq has written 12 tales concerning the lives of girls within the patriarchal communities of South India.
“It is a second of celebration for Kannada, Kannadigas, and Karnataka. Banu Mushtaq, who embodies and writes with the true values of this land, that are concord, secularism, and brotherhood, has raised the flag of Kannada’s greatness on the worldwide stage and introduced honour to all of us,” Siddaramaiah stated in a submit on X Wednesday.
ಅಂತಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಬೂಕರ್ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪುರಸ್ಕೃತರಾಗಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ಲೇಖಕಿ ಬಾನು ಮುಸ್ತಾಕ್ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಹೃತ್ಪೂರ್ವಕ ಅಭಿನಂದನೆಗಳು. ಇದು ಕನ್ನಡ, ಕನ್ನಡಿಗ ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸಂಭ್ರಮಿಸುವ ಹೊತ್ತು.
ಈ ನೆಲದ ಸೌಹಾರ್ದತೆ, ಜಾತ್ಯತೀತತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸೋದರತ್ವದ ನಿಜ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಮೈಗೂಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಬರೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಬಾನು ಮುಸ್ತಾಕ್ ಅವರು… pic.twitter.com/o4hjTNiQvR
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) May 21, 2025
The Karnataka chief minister additionally congratulated Deepa Bhasthi, who translated Mushtaq’s tales within the award-winning ebook.
Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Metal H D Kumaraswamy stated the award for Mushtaq was a second of pleasure for Kannadigas.
“Congratulations additionally to writer Deepa Bhasti for translating ‘Hrudaya Deepa’, the Booker Prize-winning ebook, into English. I hope Banu Mushtaq will produce extra such nice works. Might the Kannada literary world be enriched by her and will the flavour of Kannada unfold internationally,” he stated.
Deputy CM D Ok Shivakumar wrote “Karnataka’s pleasure soars the skies”, and stated the award was a matter of pleasure for the state.
BJP state president B Y Vijayendra stated it was “a matter of pleasure for all Kannadigas that for the primary time a Kannada work has gained this prestigious award.” He wished her extra contributions to the Kannada literary world to flourish on a world scale. He additionally expressed congratulations on behalf of Kannadigas to Deepa Bhasthi for translating her works into English.
In Coronary heart Lamp, Mushtaq tells the story of the lives of girls within the patriarchal communities of South India.
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“This ebook was born from the idea that no story is ever small, that within the tapestry of human expertise, each thread holds the load of the entire. In a world that usually tries to divide us, literature stays one of many misplaced sacred areas the place we will stay inside one another’s minds, if just for a couple of pages,” Mushtaq stated after she gained the world’s most influential award for translated fiction.
Max Porter, Worldwide Booker Prize 2025 Chair of judges, stated, “Coronary heart Lamp is one thing genuinely new for English readers. A radical translation which ruffles language, to create new textures in a plurality of Englishes. It challenges and expands our understanding of translation. These lovely, busy, life-affirming tales rise from Kannada, interspersed with the extraordinary socio-political richness of different languages and dialects. It speaks of girls’s lives, reproductive rights, religion, caste, energy and oppression”.
Mushtaq and Bhashti will share the £50,000 prize cash equally.
Mushtaq is the second Indian writer to win the Worldwide Booker Prize after Geetanjali Shree in 2022.