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

Banu Mushtaq's Haseena Mattu Itara Kathegalu, an anthology in Kannada, was unknown to Indians, let alone readers across the ...

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 ...

Heart Lamp, written by author, women’s rights activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the ...

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

Banu Mushtaq wins for book ‘challenging Western stereotypes about Muslim life’ Source: Booker Prize Foundation ...

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 ...

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi and published by And Other Stories, is the first short story ...

While Sarah Jessica Parker has always been a big reader, nothing could prepare her for the 200-plus books she’ll have tackle this year as a newly appointed Booker Prize judge. “When I finished ...