Deepa Bhasthi
Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and International Booker Prize winning literary translator working in Kannada and English. Her cultural criticism, essays, columns and journalism have been published extensively in Indian and international publications, anthologies and as part of various art projects. She is the author of a children’s book ‘Champi and the Fig Tree’ in Kannada and English. Her published translations from Kannada include works by Kota Shivarama Karanth and Kodagina Gouramma. She is also the recipient of an EnglishPEN Award for her translation of Banu Mushtaq’s short stories, titled ‘Heart Lamp: Selected Stories’. Deepa lives and works in Kodagu in southern India.
