News India Live, Digital Desk: Indian writer Banu Mushtaq has received the International Booker Award for his short story collection ‘Heart Lamp’. Along with winning the award, she has become the first writer of Kannada language literature who has been given this prestigious literary award for translated fiction literature.
Getting the award at a ceremony held at the Tate Modern Gallery in London, Mushtaq said: “This moment seems to be illuminating thousands of fireflies – brief, luxurious and completely collective. I accept this great respect not as a person but as a voice raised with many others.”
Committed to women’s rights and social justice
Banu Mushtaq is a 77 -year -old writer, activist and lawyer. She writes in Kannada language. His compositions have also been published in English recently in English, in addition to being published in Urdu, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam.
Mushtaq was born in Karnataka and enrolled in a Kannada-language missionary school in Shivamogga with the condition that she would learn to read and write Kannada within six months; However, he started writing a few days after the school started.
Mushtaq also worked as a reporter for a newspaper called ‘Lankesh Patrika’. She was also associated with All India Radio in Bengaluru for a very short time. In the early 2000s, she actively joined the Citizen Samaj Group Komu Sahard Vedike. Mushtaq and his family faced a three -month “social boycott” when they expressed their support for Muslim women’s right to enter mosques.
As a lawyer, Mushtaq has been committed to women’s rights and social justice. And these things have shaped his story of storytelling. His compositions talk about the inequalities and inequalities of caste and class in society. ‘Heart Lamp’ is a collection of 12 stories that were originally published between 1990 and 2023. Stories revolve around everyday life in Muslim communities of South India, in which more attention is paid to the experiences of women and girls.
Mushtaq has written six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection and a poem collection. A major voice in Dalit and Muslim literature, he first won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award and Dana Chintamani Atimbbe Award.
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