Banu Mushtaq's 'Heart Lamp' has won the International Booker Prize, marking the first Kannada to English translation to ...

Banu Mushtaq's Haseena Mattu Itara Kathegalu, an anthology in Kannada, was unknown to Indians, let alone readers across the ...

Lawyer Banu Mushtaq, from Karnataka (India), is the first to win this award. Her short story collection Heart Lamp is ...

Translation, more visibly than other practices dispels the cult of the solitary genius, as it foregrounds the inherently ...

The stories in Heart Lamp are tight, clean and elegant. They manifest Mushtaq’s talent as a writer. The name, Heart Lamp, is also symbolic. It otherwise means a heart-shaped lamp used as a decorative ...

Kannada book 'Haseena Mattu Itara Kathegalu' by Banu Mushtaq sells out after winning International Booker Prize.

It’s a riposte to colonisation, where the coloniser’s language is owned and transformed by those from a former colony to win ...

A few years ago, I picked up a book that had won this same prize. It was so slow, and hard to understand. Nothing happened - ...

From Leonora Carrington’s surreal ageing heroine to Banu Mushtaq’s bold feminist stories, two women writers defy patriarchy ...

Deepa Bhasthi, the winner of the prestigious International Booker Prize 2025, has etched her name in the books of literary ...

In a historic moment for Indian literature, Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the prestigious International Booker Prize for her evocative collection of short stories, Heart Lamp. With this ...