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Banu Mushtaq

b. 1948

1 standalone book

Banu Mushtaq is an Indian Kannada-language writer, activist, and lawyer from Karnataka. She is best known for Heart Lamp, a selection of her short stories translated by Deepa Bhasthi, which won the International Booker Prize in 2025. She has published six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection, and a poetry collection. Her work has been translated into Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and English.

Born
1948

Books by Banu Mushtaq

  1. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

    Year unknown

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  1. Heart Lamp

    2025 · Banu Mushtaq

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