The writer and advocate Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won this year's International Booker Prize for their book Heart Lamp. The book is the first short story collection to win the ...

An extraordinary author-translator collaboration produced a book, “Heart Lamp,” that was lauded for enriching the English ...

Heart Lamp is her first book-length translation into English. With this win, Mushtaq becomes only the second Indian writer ever to be awarded the International Booker Prize. Bhasthi, a writer and ...

Every emotion, every struggle, every painful coming-of-age moment in this book is a powerful reminder of why it won the ...

The short fiction collection is not a seductive read in the traditional sense. It doesn’t dazzle with plot twists or offer ...

Progressive leaders in Hassan felicitate Banu Mushtaq for winning International Booker Prize, highlighting her literary and ...

Banu Mushtaq, whose Kavana Sankalana, a short poetry collection, ‘Heart lamp’, became the first-of-its-kind to win the ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh each for Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi for ...

turning them into mere subordinates,” she told Booker Prize. The stories in Heart Lamp were drawn from around 50 works across six of her collections published since 1990. Mushtaq writes ...

All writers draw on their experience, whether consciously or not, says Indian author Banu Mushtaq — including the titular ...

It is the official language of Karnataka, a state nestled between Kerala (where they speak Malayalam), Tamil Nadu (where ...

Deepa Bhasthi notes surging demand for Kannada work ‘Heart Lamp’, with translations planned in Malayalam, Assamese, and Oriya ...