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

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Banu Mushtaq, 77, becomes the first Kannada writer to win the International Booker Prize for her collection "Heart Lamp," showcasing Muslim women's lives.

The first Kannada author to win the award, Mushtaq shares the honour and the £50,000 prize money with Bhasthi, the first ever ...

In her International Booker acceptance speech on May 20, 2025, Kannada writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq thanked readers for letting her stories “wander into their hearts” and Deepa Bhasthi, who ...

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” ...

In a milestone for regional Indian literature, writer, advocate and activist Banu Mushtaq won the International Booker Prize 2025 for her Kannada short story collection ‘Heart Lamp’ on May 20, ...