For Mehdi Khawaja, 26, what started as an interest as a reader of the work of the first Kashmiri novelist, Akhtar Mohiuddin, has given shape to his ambition to translate Kashmiri language writers into English. Mehdi's translation of Mohiuddin's novel 'To Each Their Own Hell' has bagged the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.