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Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq: 'No story is too small'

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Indian author Banu Mushtaq has won this year's International Booker Prize 2025. The annual literary Booker Prize award goes to a living author from anywhere in the world for work available in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

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