Winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 for Heart Lamp. Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and literary translator based in Kodagu, southern India
Bhasthi’s columns, essays and cultural criticism have been published in India and internationally. Her published translations from Kannada include a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth and a collection of short stories by Kodagina Gouramma. Her translation of Banu Mushtaq’s stories was a winner of English PEN’s PEN Translates award and, collected as Heart Lamp, was the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025.