Banu Mushtaq’s quietly powerful collection of short stories, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, shines a light on the lives of Muslim women in rural India. It is the first time that the International Booker ...

Banu Mushtaq, the first Kannada writer to win the International Booker Prize, has dedicated the award to the people of India.

It is a crowning moment for Indian, especially Kannada, literature that Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the International ...

Indian writer, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq has made literary history by winning the International Booker Prize for her ...

It was a proud moment for Karnataka and the Kannada literary world as Deepa Bhasthi won the prestigious International Booker ...

Max Porter, Chair of the 2025 International Booker Prize judges, praised Heart Lamp as a standout from the outset. “This was ...

Heart Lamp, written by author, women’s rights activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the ...

Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi's 'Heart Lamp' wins the International Booker Prize. The book's ...

Banu Mushtaq focused most of her writings on women's lives, caste, power and oppression. Her writing shed light on the ...

Writer and activist Banu Mushtaq, 77, made history on Tuesday by winning the International Booker Prize for 'Heart Lamp', a short story collection originally written in Kannada.  This marks the first ...

Banu Mushtaq, a writer and lawyer, won the International Booker Prize for her Kannada short story collection 'Hridaya Deepa', ...

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...