Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...

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

It is the first time that the award has been given to a collection of short stories. "Heart Lamp" is the first book written in the Kannada language to win the prestigious prize. View on euronews ...

Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq on Tuesday won the International Booker Prize for her short story collection ...

Banu Mushtaq, an Indian writer, has won the International Booker Prize for her Kannada short story collection, Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi ...

Earlier, Banu Mushtaq was a reporter for the newspaper Lankesh Patrike. For a brief period, her career also included at All India Radio in Bengaluru.

Through 12 short stories published over three decades, the writer portrays the pain and suffering of Muslim women in south ...

The winning book, the first collection of short stories to be awarded the prize, was announced by author Max Porter, chair of ...

unquestioning obedience to church leaders and mandatory tithing even by families in financial distress. He shared his story last spring as part of an Arizona Daily Star investigation into the Tucs ...

society and politics demand unquestioning obedience from them, and in doing so, inflict inhumane cruelty upon them, turning them into mere subordinates.” The 50,000-pound ($66,000) prize money ...