{"id":15218,"date":"2025-06-26T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15218\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:21:09","slug":"books-kannada-booker-triumph-to-boost-indian-regional-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15218\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: Kannada Booker triumph &#8216;to boost Indian regional writing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">CHENNAI &#8212;\u00a0Global interest in literature written in Kannada and other Indian regional languages is likely to rise significantly following this year&#8217;s International Booker Prize win for the English translation of Banu Mushtaq&#8217;s &#8220;Heart Lamp,&#8221; according to translator Deepa Bhasthi.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">&#8220;Heart Lamp&#8221; &#8212; a collection of 12 stories originally published in Kannada between 1990 and 2023 &#8212; was the only work on the shortlist that was not a novel and was not expected to win the award, presented in London on May 20, despite warm notices from critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHENNAI &#8212;\u00a0Global interest in literature written in Kannada and other Indian regional languages is likely to rise significantly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7228,1022,15359,171,15360,15357,904,447,15358,67,132,68,5558],"class_list":{"0":"post-15218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-booker","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-boost","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-indian","13":"tag-kannada","14":"tag-regional","15":"tag-to","16":"tag-triumph","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-writing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114747521552606103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}