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 ...

The book chronicles the resilience, resistance, wit, and sisterhood of everyday women in patriarchal communities in southern ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so. Translated by Deepa Bhasthi, it is also the first book originally ...

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

By Pragati K.B. Banu Mushtaq’s book “Heart Lamp” last month became the first story collection to win the International Booker ...

The International Booker Prize’s practice of sharing credit and prize money equally between author and translator is ...

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

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

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 ...

While the threat of another wife may be specific to their religion, most of the other problems these women face are ...

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 ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so. Translated by Deepa Bhasthi, it is also the first book originally published in ...