Nepal, Sept. 14 -- International Booker Prize-winning translator Deepa Bhasthi is in Kathmandu as one of the mentors at a three-day literary translation workshop at Kathmandu University's Dhulikhel campus.

The workshop, organised jointly by Kathmandu University's Department of Languages and Mass Communication and the University of Chicago's South Asian Literature in Translation (SALT), brought together writers and translators working with Nepali, Maithili, Tibetan and Nepal Bhasa.

Bhasthi became the first Indian translator to win the International Booker Prize in 2025 for her translation of Banu Mushtaq's 'Heart Lamp', a collection of 12 short stories written over more than 30 years that chronicle the everyday lives and struggles of wom...