Heart Lamp' by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi from Kannada, has won the 2025 International Booker Prize, becoming ...

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq’s short story collection ...

Now a retired teacher, Khokhar has authored six books—five in Urdu and one in Pahari. She recalls her early days in literature when her first short story was published in 1988. “People around me ...

Most of the short stories in Siyah Sona focus on internal issues. A few also address social and international problems. Nilofar Iqbal is one of the modern Urdu writers who have not garnered much ...

Tell us about your curatorial process for Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times ... pieces are in place – while this volume was just short stories, in the past I have worked with prose and ...

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 ...

In 2011, while participating in the Faiz Ahmed Faiz festival in Lahore, theatre personality Danish Husain was gifted a book of Urdu short stories written by Ali Akbar Natiq. After reading ...

The Swayam Portal also has a study of Urdu novels and Urdu short stories (DSE) by Kashmir University. Websites like Transparent Language provide a well-structured Urdu course with easily accessible ...

He was put in the cage of struggle. A quite hard time he encountered. Later, with the assistance of Urdu short stories writer S. M. Sajid who managed him a job in an NGO HEED Bangladesh as Liaison ...