内容摘要：That's according to Mehdi Sousanne, at least. And he should know. He's a designer for Zara who helps create the clothes for a brand that's one of the most successful stories in High Street fashion.

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It is the first short story collection to win the presigious prize. Judges praised her characters as "astonishing portraits of survival and resilience".Featuring 12 short stories written by Mushtaq between 1990 and 2023, Heart Lamp poignantly captures the hardships of Muslim women living in southern India.

The stories were selected and translated into English from Kannada, which is spoken in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, by Deepa Bhasthi who will share the £50,000 prize.In her acceptance speech, Mushtaq thanked readers for letting her words wander into their hearts."This book was born from the belief that no story is ever small; that in the tapestry of human experience, every thread holds the weight of the whole," she said.

"In a world that often tries to divide us, literature remains one of the last sacred spaces where we can live inside each other's minds, if only for a few pages," she added.Bhasthi, who became the first Indian translator to win an International Booker, said that she hoped that the win would encourage more translations from and into Kannada and other South Asian languages.

Manasi Subramaniam, Editor-in-chief of Penguin India, the book's publisher in India, told the BBC that the award was a significant win for regional literature.

"Following Tomb of Sand's landmark win in 2022 [Geetanjali Shree's book was translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell], Heart Lamp's triumph this year is a powerful reminder that literature in India's many languages demands our full attention. We owe it our ears," said SubramaniamWriting in the Daily Mail, Badenoch says both leaders believe in getting struggling taxpayers to "fund unlimited child support for others".

Her commentary comes after the Labour government indicated that it was looking at the possibility ofFarage said earlier this week that his party would also get rid of the policy and

Badenoch added the country could not "afford their fantasy economics" and that Britain deserved leaders who did not "treat economics like a branch of showbiz"."This week we have seen Labour and Reform in a race to the bottom to scrap the two-child benefit cap,"