International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq says patriarchy is more entrenched today than it was in her youth, and ...

Unfeeling husbands. Brothers who want to rob sisters of their inheritance. Mothers expected to be responsible for their ...

At a conversation hosted by IIC in New Delhi, Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi reflected on the power of language, resistance, ...

Karnataka author Banu Mushtaq discusses her reading journey from childhood magazines to Russian literature, how social activism shaped her writing, and winning the 2025 International Booker Prize for ...

Jenny Farrell When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work—and the first short story collection—to win the 2025 International Booker Prize, it marked more than a literary milestone. It ...

Author Banu Mushtaq's International Booker prize winning book, "Heart Lamp", is a collection of 12 short stories written from ...

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book " Heart Lamp " is also the first short story collection to do so. "Heart Lamp" ...

Banu Mushtaq, the first Kannada writer to win the International Booker Prize, earlier this year, visited Bengaluru to meet and greet students and teachers at the Mount Carmel College. During her ...

Banu Mushtaq’s global recognition has come as a final nail in the coffin of trolls. Secondly, it cannot be denied that this is the recognition of the voice of Muslim women.

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a ...

Mushtaq’s remarkable life. Born in the 1940s in Shivamogga, a small town in Karnataka, Banu Mushtaq was raised in a conservative Muslim household, where girls were usually limited to religious ...