Heart Lamp: selected stories
winner of the international booker prize 2025
$29.60
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
19 May 2025
Summary
Heart Lamp: Stories of Resilience and Resistance
In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761381836 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761381830 |
| Author: | Banu Mushtaq |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 258mm x 137mm x 15mm |
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Banu Mushtaq
Banu Mushtaq (Author)
Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist, and lawyer in the state of Karnataka, southern India. Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in southwestern India in the 1970s and 1980s. Critical of the caste and class system, the Bandaya Sahitya movement gave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. She is the author of six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection. She writes in Kannada and has won major awards for her literary works, including the Karnataka Sahitya Academy and the Daana Chintamani Attimabbe awards.
Deepa Bhasthi (Translator)
Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and literary translator based in Kodagu, southern India. Her columns, essays, and cultural criticism have been published in India and internationally. Her published translations from Kannada include a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth and a collection of short stories by Kodagina Gouramma. Her translation of Banu Mushtaq’s stories was a winner of English PEN’s PEN Translates award.
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