Heart Lamp – Banu Mushtaq

In Conversation with Rachel Genn

11 October, 2025 at 1:00 pm

Join us to celebrate a remarkable achievement. Published by Sheffield based publisher, And Other Stories, Heart Lamp is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025. In 12 stories, author Banu Mushtaq captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. These portraits of family and community tensions testify to Banu Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights. Here is your chance to celebrate this acclaimed, prize winning book as we join author Banu Mushtaq for a conversation via a live video link from India. 

Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer in the state of Karnataka, southern India.   

Rachel Genn is a neuroscientist, artist and writer. Her novels are The Cure and What You Could Have Won.

Banu Mushtaq