Banu mushtaq: (born 3 April 1948) is an

Banu Mushtaq (born 3 April 1948) is an Indian Kannada -language writer, activist, and lawyer from Karnataka. She is best known for Heart Lamp, a selection of her short stories translated by Deepa Bhasthi, which won the International Booker Prize in 2025. Heart Lamp Selected Stories | WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Banu Mushtaq , Deepa Bhasthi Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq ’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all ... Banu Mushtaq scripted history by becoming the first Kannada writer to win the coveted International Booker Prize. With this achievement, Mushtaq now joins an elite list of Indians who have won the coveted prize since its inception in 1969 -- including V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, and Geetanjali Shree. WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 In Heart Lamp In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq ’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial ...