Meet Banu Mushtaq: Winner of 2025 Booker PrizeJournalist, Activist, Author and Lawyer, Banu Mushtaq, the winner of 2025 Booker Prize for Literature, is now also a History MakerTuesday July 22, 2025 8:45 PM , Aniqua Sabahat Faizee[Banu Mushtaq in conversation with Arfa Khanum Sherwani of The Wire at an event held at Jawahar Bhawan in New Delhi. Journalist, Activist, Author and Lawyer, Banu Mushtaq is now also a History Maker. Banu Mushtaq is the winner of 2025 Booker Prize for Literature, a historic feat as her short story collection ‘Heart Lamp’, translated to English by Deepa Bhasthi, became the first Kannada title to win the coveted International Booker Prize. Banu Mushtaq was born into a Muslim family in Hassan, Karnataka, on April 03, 1948. Incidentally, the language which Muslims were so reluctant to learn, won Banu Mushtaq one of the world’s highest literary awards.