The 77-year-old Mushtaq, who has worked as a lawyer, an activist and a reporter previously, has been writing in Kannada for over four decades now, and the 12 stories in Heart Lamp have been chosen ...

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp has become the first Kannada book to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious award recognising translated fiction. The collection of 12 short stories explores ...

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book “ Heart Lamp ” is also the first short story collection to do so.

"So the English in Heart Lamp is an English with a very deliberate Kannada hum to it." The judges for this year's prize had to whittle the list down from 154 books submitted by publishers.

Heart Lamp is her first book-length translation into English. With this win, Mushtaq becomes only the second Indian writer ever to be awarded the International Booker Prize.

The stories were selected and translated into English from Kannada, which is spoken in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, by Deepa Bhasthi who will share the £50,000 prize.

In the wake of Heart Lamp’s historic International Booker Prize win, here are four recent translations that make space for India’s layered regional literature ...

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a ...