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Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so.
The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection ...
A few years ago, I picked up a book that had won this same prize. It was so slow, and hard to understand. Nothing happened - ...
Banu Mushtaq's Haseena Mattu Itara Kathegalu, an anthology in Kannada, was unknown to Indians, let alone readers across the ...
BENGALURU: ‘Heart Lamp’, which won the prestigious International Booker Prize, is selling like hot cakes. The English ...
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Banu Mushtaq Publisher: Penguin Price: Rs 399/- Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Wins International Booker Prize 2025. In a time of ...
It is a crowning moment for Indian, especially Kannada, literature that Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the International ...
Banu Mushtaq, a Kannada writer, has won the International Booker Prize 2025 for her short story collection, Heart Lamp, ...
Now, when schadenfreude is the commonest mode of wishful thinking — yaniki, our yearnings are dedicated to the failures of ...
It’s a riposte to colonisation, where the coloniser’s language is owned and transformed by those from a former colony to win ...
Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi and published by And Other Stories, is the first short story ...
Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before Tuesday. Now, it’s won the major award for translated fiction.