Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book “ Heart ...

Karnataka author Banu Mushtaq discusses her reading journey from childhood magazines to Russian literature, how social activism shaped her writing, and winning the 2025 International Booker Prize for ...

At a conversation hosted by IIC in New Delhi, Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi reflected on the power of language, resistance, ...

Jenny Farrell When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work—and the first short story collection—to win the 2025 International Booker Prize, it marked more than a literary milestone. It ...

Author Banu Mushtaq said at a time women are going for higher studies and getting employed, they are also being murdered for ...

In the wake of Heart Lamp’s historic International Booker Prize win, here are five recent translations that make space for ...

"Heart Lamp" -- a collection of 12 stories originally published in Kannada between 1990 and 2023 -- was the only work on the shortlist that was not a novel and was not expected to win the award ...

Author Banu Mushtaq's International Booker prize winning book, "Heart Lamp", is a collection of 12 short stories written from the 1990s till 2023, a ...

As Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’ shows, Muslim women seeking justice are neither a figment of ...

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Banu Mushtaq, Booker Prize-winning author, reflects on her journey, challenges, and the power of storytelling in English and Kannada.

The collection Heart Lamp: Selected Stories has riches, and some repetitive moments. That said, it is undeniably one of the very few examples of its kind, available in English. Like the Tamil ...