News

Lawyer Banu Mushtaq, from Karnataka (India), is the first to win this award. Her short story collection Heart Lamp is ...
Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before ...
Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” ...
Deepa Bhasthi, the winner of the prestigious International Booker Prize 2025, has etched her name in the books of literary ...
Banu Mushtaq, a trailblazing writer, lawyer and activist from Karnataka, has become the first Kannada author to win the ...
Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so.
Deepa Bhasthi received the International Booker Prize in London. She translated Banu Mushtaq's Kannada novel 'Edeya Hanate'.
While there were several women who were inspired by the literary and political landscape of the ’80s, Banu remains one of the ...
The 77-year-old Indian activist is the first Kannada-language author to win the award, which also recognizes the work of ...
Banu Mushtaq, an Indian writer, lawyer, and activist, has become the first author writing in Kannada to win the prestigious ...
In this SBS Hindi podcast, we discuss Indian author Banu Mushtaq's win of the 2025 International Booker Prize for her book ...
Any opportunity that exists to read, I’m reading,” Parker told Page Six of prepping to be a Booker Prize judge.