Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so.

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 ...

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi and published by And Other Stories, is the first short story ...

It’s a riposte to colonisation, where the coloniser’s language is owned and transformed by those from a former colony to win ...

This year’s International Booker Prize was awarded to Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp,’ a collection of short stories written in Kannada. As with Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand,’ it lights up a path we ...

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the 2025 International Booker prize. Here, our literature experts review the book and the ...

Max Porter, Chair of the 2025 International Booker Prize judges, praised Heart Lamp as a standout from the outset. “This was ...

It is the first time that the International Booker prize has been won by a book ... This comes through in the vignettes collected in Heart Lamp. At the centre of this work is great compassion ...

Kannada writer, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on Wednesday scripted history by winning the International Booker Prize for 'Heart Lamp', the first Kannada title and ...