Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before Tuesday. Now, it’s won the major award for translated fiction.

Banu Mushtaq’s book “Heart Lamp” last week became the first story collection to win the International Booker Prize.It was also the first work translated from Kannada, a southern Indian ...

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 ...

Sameer Syed A man who murdered his wife and two children in their Dublin home wore a dress and disguised himself as a woman on the night they were killed. His daughter, Asfira Syed (11), also made ...