Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book " Heart ...

The writer and advocate Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won this year's International Booker Prize for their book Heart Lamp.The book is the first short story collection to win the ...

Books | NPR 'Heart Lamp' wins International Booker, with stories of India's Muslim women and girls. The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English.

I call it translating with an accent," she said. "So the English in Heart Lamp is an English with a very deliberate Kannada hum to it." The judges for this year's prize had to whittle the list down ...

The writer and advocate Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won this year's International Booker Prize for their book Heart Lamp. The book is the first short story collection to win the ...