Heart Lamp won @TheBookerPrizes2025 , Here are 6 more Kannada Books You Must Read | Book Recs

With the Booker Prize win of Heart Lamp, Kannada literature is in the global spotlight it deserves. In this video, Priyanka Saha shares six compelling Kannada works in English translation that deserve a place on your shelf.

These aren't just books—they're living archives of resistance, tenderness, longing, and political fire. Through fiction, memoir, and reimagined epics, Kannada writers have been asking urgent questions for decades—and now is the time for more readers to listen.

✨ Books Featured:

1.Ghachar Ghochar – Vivek Shanbhag

2.No Presents Please – Jayant Kaikini (DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019)

3.Tejo Tungabhadra – Vasudhendra (Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Best Novel in 2019)

4.Parva – S.L. Bhyrappa

5.Bride in the Hills – Kuvempu

6.The Sour Mango Tree – P. Lankesh

If you've ever thought Indian literature in English translation is limited to a few languages or cities, think again. Kannada literature is vast, political, intimate, and deeply alive—and it's waiting for you.

📖 Add these books to your reading list, share them, and join the growing movement to celebrate regional voices.

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