Women’s writing in Kannada has not received the recognition it deserves. Even most of the notable awards at the national ...

Banu Mushtaq, a writer and activist from Karnataka, has gained global recognition for her powerful storytelling centered on ...

Literature enthusiasts across India woke up on Wednesday morning to the sweet news of Karnataka’s own Banu Mushtaq and Deepa ...

The International Booker Prize, previously known as the Man Booker International Prize, was instituted in 2005 and has ...

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection ...

Mushtaq has become the first author writing in Kannada to win the prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before ...

Banu Mushtaq, the distinguished Kannada writer, lawyer, and activist who won the 2025 International Booker Prize for her ...

Leena Manimekalai, poet, filmmaker & educatorBanu Mushtaq’s book, radically translated by Deepa Bhasthi, winning Booker is a slap on the fascist Indian stat ...

The state police did nothing. The National Commission for Women and the State Commission for Women did nothing. The Madhya Pradesh High Court had to step in suo-moto, instructing that an FIR be filed ...

Banu Mushtaq's 'Heart Lamp' has won the International Booker Prize, marking the first Kannada to English translation to ...

Banu Mushtaq has a celebrated literary career, which includes six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection, and ...