The winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize is Banu Mushtaq's HEART LAMP. Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, it is the first collection of short stories to win the prize.

Written between 1990 and 2023, the book's 12 stories chronicle the lives of women and girls in patriarchal communities in southern India. Mushtaq, a lawyer and major voice within progressive Kannada literature, is a prominent champion of women’s rights and a protester against caste and religious oppression in India, and was inspired to write the stories by the experiences of women who came to her seeking help. She becomes the second Indian author to win the International Booker Prize after Geetanjali Shree in 2022.

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2025 Winner
 

• HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories)
   

2025 Shortlist
 

• ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland (Faber & Faber)
• SMALL BOAT by Vincent Delecroix, translated from French by Helen Stevenson (Small Axes)
• UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Asa Yoneda (Granta Books)
• PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from Italian by Sophie Hughes (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories)
• A LEOPARD-SKIN HAT by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson (Lolli Editions)
   

2025 Longlist
 

• THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by Ibtisam Azem, translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon (And Other Stories)
• ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland (Faber & Faber)
• THERE'S A MONSTER BEHIND THE DOOR by Gaëlle Bélem, translated from French by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (Bullaun Press)
• SOLENOID by Mircea Cartarescu, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter (Pushkin Press)
• RESERVOIR BITCHES by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary (Scribe UK)
• SMALL BOAT by Vincent Delecroix, translated from French by Helen Stevenson (Small Axes)
• HUNCHBACK by Saou Ichikawa, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton (Penguin Random House UK)
• UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Asa Yoneda (Granta Books)
• EUROTRASH by Christian Kracht, translated from German by by Daniel Bowles (Serpent’s Tail)
• PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from Italian by Sophie Hughes (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories)
• ON A WOMAN'S MADNESS by Astrid Roemer, translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott (Tilted Axis Press)
• A LEOPARD-SKIN HAT by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson (Lolli Editions)