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 author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more than 30 ...

LONDON: Writer, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq's short story collection 'Heart Lamp' has become the first Kannada title to win the coveted GBP 50,000 International Booker Prize in London. Mushtaq ...

Earlier, Banu Mushtaq was a reporter for the newspaper Lankesh Patrike. For a brief period, her career also included at All India Radio in Bengaluru.

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection "something genuinely new for English readers." ...

292pp, ₹415; Niyogi Books That’s why the new anthology, Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata, edited by Shams Afif Siddiqi and Fuzail Asar Siddiqi and translated by the former ...

Urdu is a jubaan in a class of itself ... reflect the currents that ripple through modern India.” The volume offers short stories of wide-ranging tones: compassionate, questioning, philosophical, ...

The late author’s works, such as the Urdu translation of Malik Mohammed Zjaisi’s magnum opus “Padmavat” and a collection of short stories, were highlighted during the event. LUCKNOW ...

offering short courses to learn Urdu typography, and converting existing books and texts to Mehr fonts. Across the border in India, Sanjiv Saraf has curated the largest online library of Urdu ...