Banu Mushtaq

1 month ago | thebookerprizes.com | Banu Mushtaq |Arundhati Roy

On 20 May, Heart Lamp became the second book by an Indian author to win the International Booker Prize – as well as the first by an Indian translator, and the first originally written in Kannada.

2 months ago | thebookerprizes.com | Bernardine Evaristo |Banu Mushtaq

Heart Lamp, originally written in Kannada, is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025. In 12 stories, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern IndiaWhether you’re new to Heart Lampor have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics, our judges and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart |Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Banu Mushtaq

The six-book shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced. The £50,000 annual prize, split equally between author and translator, recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the U.K. and/or Ireland. The winner will be announced on May 20 at a ceremony at the Tate Modern in London.

2 months ago | thehindu.com | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Banu Mushtaq

Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq’s story collection Heart Lamp is among the six books featured in this year’s International Booker Prize shortlist announced on Tuesday (April 8, 2025). Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, is a collection of 11 short stories written by Banu Mushtaq between 1990 and 2023. Earlier, an English translation of a collection of her short stories Haseena and Other Stories won English PEN translation award for the year 2024. That was also translated by Deepa Bhasthi.

Nov 22, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Banu Mushtaq

After creating crores and crores of tiny organisms like me over lakhs and lakhs of years, after establishing heaven for our good deeds and hell for our sins, oh Lord who sits waiting for us: Prabhu, you must be on your way now to enjoy the sweet fragrance of the garden in heaven. Or perhaps you are issuing orders to the angels, who stand there with hands folded, radiant faces aglow. I may be a mere tiny fragment of your soul, but I do have the right to make a request, don’t I? Because . . .