Inspired by encounters with women who came to her for help, each of Mushtaq’s stories introduces us to a different woman from a different family. What the women of Heart Lamp share is that their lives ...

Over three decades spent chronicling the everyday lives of women in India, International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq says she cannot live without writing as it is like breathing for her.

The Booker T. Washington Alumni Association is hosting a Bingo Fundraiser on June 7 to raise funds for an All School All Years Reunion, with two-pack and four-pack cards available for $20 and $30 ...

An extraordinary author-translator collaboration produced a book, “Heart Lamp,” that was lauded for enriching the English ...

Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased’ by maximum sentence for attacker - The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence ...

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.

Indian writer, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq has made literary history by winning the International Booker Prize for her ...

Max Porter, Chair of the 2025 International Booker Prize judges, praised Heart Lamp as a standout from the outset. “This was ...

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

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...

Banu Mushtaq, who is an Indian writer-lawyer and an activist, has created history by becoming the first Kannada writer to win ...

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection ...