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Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq said on Wednesday that she believed she would win the prize "500 per cent" and she wrote the ...
Speaking on the occasion, K.V. Prabhakar, Media Advisor to the Chief Minister, stated that Banu Mushtaq is a weaver of ...
Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, winning the 2025 International Booker Prize — the first ever for a Kannada work, marks the ...
In an age of influencers, Mushtaq’s quiet stories reclaim literature’s moral ground ...
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 ...
International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq, renowned for capturing the lives of Indian women, views writing as essential as breathing. Her award-winning Kannada collection 'Heart Lamp' showcases ...
Over three decades spent chronicling the everyday lives of women in India, International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq ...
And this is what makes the award of the Booker Prize last week to Banu Mushtaq so important. Her collection of short stories ...
“It is an honour for Kannada that a work written in our language ... has found a place in the long list for the International Booker Prize, 2025. Heart Lamp is one among the 13 books chosen ...
An extraordinary author-translator collaboration produced a book, “Heart Lamp,” that was lauded for enriching the English ...
Full texts of writer Banu Mushtaq’s and translator Deepa Bhasthi’s acceptance speeches after winning the 2025 International ...
Banu Mushtaq has won the prize at a time when the state and society are heavily invested in othering, cornering, and ...