Why in news Banu Mushtaq won the International Booker Prize 2025 for her book Heart Lamp , the first time a Kannada work has won. Musht...
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Banu Mushtaq won the International Booker Prize 2025 for her book Heart Lamp, the first time a Kannada work has won.
Mushtaq's stories highlight the struggles of Muslim women, focusing on how religion, society, and politics impose cruelty on them.
It is a collection of short stories, marking the first time a short story collection has won the prize.
Mushtaq, with her translator Deepa Bhasthi, was praised for their radical translation that creates new textures in English.
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