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 art book 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.
Her book:
Chapada: The Journey of Alphabets