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

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 ...

Lawyer and activist’s book ‘Heart Lamp’, is a collection of 12 short stories, and also her first book translated into English ...

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 ...

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

The book chronicles the resilience, resistance, wit, and sisterhood of everyday women in patriarchal communities in southern India. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans Banu Mushtaq is still ...

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 ...

Her London journey was not without drama. Because of health concerns—Banu is a heart patient—her family booked connecting flights via Doha instead of a long direct flight. In transit, she lost her ...