Banu Mushtaq

2 weeks 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 weeks 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 . . .

Jun 18, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Banu Mushtaq

Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi There’s no end to the woes that mothers face come summer vacation. All the children are at home. When they’re not in front of the TV, they’re either climbing the guava tree in the front yard or perched on the compound wall. What if one of them falls and breaks an arm or a leg?