International Booker Prize has been awarded to writer Banu Mushtaq, for her collection of short stories ‘Heart Lamp’ which was ...

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 ...

It’s a riposte to colonisation, where the coloniser’s language is owned and transformed by those from a former colony to win ...

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.