In conversation with Forbes India after winning one of the most prestigious literary awards for her book Heart Lamp, Mushtaq ...

Mukherjee’s book, a fresh break from a lineage of jargonic writing on India’s first prime minister, puts in center the spirit ...

With it, she has placed Kannada, a language she describes as a legacy of cosmic wonder and earthly wisdom, firmly on the ...

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

Originally published in Kannada and previously translated into Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam, ‘Heart Lamp’ brings the ...

As she accepted the International Booker Prize, Banu Mushtaq delivered a moving tribute to her readers and the language she writes in ...

She’s a lawyer, an activist, a feminist. And a writer in Kannada who distils it all in her stories that are deeply reflective of the lives of women around her and the patriarchal systems they fight ...

The 77-year-old Indian activist is the first Kannada-language author to win the award, which also recognizes the work of ...

Mushtaq has become the first author writing in Kannada to win the prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp ...

Banu Mushtaq, a trailblazing writer, lawyer and activist from Karnataka, has become the first Kannada author to win the ...

Indian author Banu Mushtaq has been announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 for her short story ...

The winning book, the first collection of short stories to be awarded the prize, was announced by author Max Porter, chair of ...