Who among the following had won the International Booker Prize in 2025 ?
1. Banu Mushtaq
2. Deepa Bhasthi
3. Sanjay Chauhan
Select the correct answer from the code given below :

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Correct — A, 1 and 2 (Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi). The International Booker Prize 2025 went to 'Heart Lamp: Selected Stories' by the Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq, translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi. The decisive point is a rule of the prize itself: the International Booker is awarded jointly to the author and the translator, and the £50,000 prize money is split equally between them, £25,000 each. Both names in the list are therefore winners, which is exactly why the code '1 and 2' is right and 'Only 1' is not. 'Heart Lamp' was the first Kannada-language work and the first short-story collection to take the prize, and Deepa Bhasthi became the first Indian translator to win it. Sanjay Chauhan, item 3, has no connection with the 2025 International Booker.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) It rightly counts the translator, Deepa Bhasthi, but drops the author whose book actually won, Banu Mushtaq, and substitutes a name unconnected with the prize. A code option must be right on every item it names.  (c) No writer or translator of this name is associated with the 2025 International Booker Prize; the award that year was made to 'Heart Lamp' and its two credited winners.  (d) This is the near-miss the question is built around, and probably the most-marked wrong option. Banu Mushtaq is genuinely a winner — but the International Booker is not an author-only prize. The translator shares it equally by the terms of the award, so an answer that leaves out Deepa Bhasthi is incomplete.

Concept: The International Booker Prize, in its present form since 2016, is awarded every year for a single work of long-form fiction or a short-story collection translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. Its defining feature is that the author and the translator win together and split the £50,000 equally — the prize was restructured deliberately to give translation the same standing as original writing. Before 2016 it was the Man Booker International Prize, given once every two years to a living author of any nationality for a whole body of work available in English. It is a different award from the Booker Prize proper, which is for fiction originally written in English.

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