Which of the following books won the International Booker Prize in 2025?

Concept

The International Booker Prize annually recognises a work of fiction translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The prize is shared by the author and the translator, so the official prize-year record is the controlling evidence.

Application

The Booker Prize Foundation’s official 2025 record names Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, as the winner. It was the first short-story collection and the first work translated from Kannada to win the prize.

Contrast

• The Comeback is a separate 2025 novel by Annie Zaidi and is not the title named in the official winner record.

• Jeevan Chakra is a Hindi poetry collection by Dr Jugal Kishor Sarraf and is not the title named in the official winner record.

• Mother Mary Comes to Me is Arundhati Roy’s memoir and is not the title named in the official winner record.

• Heart Lamp is Banu Mushtaq’s Kannada short-story collection translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi; those details match the official winner record.

Cross-check

The “2021” label on the paper identifies the UPPSC recruitment/examination cycle; it does not date every current-affairs question in the booklet. The official UPPSC booklet itself contains this 2025 question.

The official 2025 prize page and the Foundation’s winner announcement independently repeat the same title, author, and translator. Therefore, the answer is Heart Lamp.