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

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before ...

While there were several women who were inspired by the literary and political landscape of the ’80s, Banu remains one of the ...

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

Banu Mushtaq, a Kannada writer, has been awarded the International Booker Prize 2025 for her short story collection, Heart ...

The 77-year-old Indian activist is the first Kannada-language author to win the award, which also recognizes the work of ...

Deepa Bhasthi received the International Booker Prize in London. She translated Banu Mushtaq's Kannada novel 'Edeya Hanate'.

Banu Mushtaq, an Indian writer, lawyer, and activist, has become the first author writing in Kannada to win the prestigious ...

Joy in India as writer Banu Mushtaq wins a major literary award for her short stories that she wrote over 3 decades in a regional language.

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the 2025 International Booker prize. Here, our literature experts review the book and the ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so.