Banu Mushtaq
Born 1948
From Hassan, Karnataka, India · Nationality: India · Writes fiction
Quotes
“In a world that often tries to divide us, literature remains one of the last sacred spaces where we can live inside each other's minds, if only for a few pages.”
International Booker Prize acceptance speech, May 2025. “If you were to build the world again, to create males and females again, do not be like an inexperienced potter. Come to earth as a woman, Prabhu! / Be a woman once, oh Lord!”
Heart Lamp
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Banu Mushtaq in order
Books by Banu Mushtaq in the order they were published, from Hejje Mūḍida Hādi (1990) to Heart Lamp (2025).
