# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/banu-mushtaq
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:31:51.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/banu-mushtaq"
name: "Banu Mushtaq"
slug: "banu-mushtaq"
description: "Banu Mushtaq is an Indian Kannada-language writer, activist, and lawyer from Karnataka. She is best known for Heart Lamp, a selection of her short stories translated by Deepa Bhasthi, which won the International Booker Prize in 2025. She has published six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection, and a poetry collection. Her work has been translated into Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and English."
tagline: "Indian writer and activist (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Banu_Mushtaq_1_at_Kollam_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump