Salman Rushdie
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The myth of the happy hooker...several critics noted that she had a command of language comparable to that of Martin Amis. Perhaps Belle de Jour was really Salman Rushdie. Surely no mere female could concoct a diary so exactly fulfilling male fantasies. Catherine... In this article: Belle de Jour, Catherine Deneuve, Lola Montez, Alexander Dumas, Billie Piper, Salman Rushdie, and Europe |
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Guardian Unlimited | 2 days ago
Lawyers fight to keep nine-year-old in UK
...M's mother has been trying to claim asylum, saying her life is in danger if she returns to Iran because photocopied extracts of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses were found in her house and business. Richard Jones, Child M's lawyer,...
In this article: UK, The Satanic Verses, Iran, Injunction, and Rash
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 2 days ago
The art of writing a sex scene
I was very young at the time. Other nominees have been a little more prestigious: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Norman Mailer and Salman Rushdie. This year's shortlist includes Booker winner John Banville, Whitbread winner Paul Theroux and...
In this article: Amos Oz, Paul Theroux, Auberon Waugh, Courtney Love, Champagne, and Literary Review
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CNET News.com | 4 days ago
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 banned in Russia
...by scenes so clearly offensive to a nation of peace. However, I am also concerned that the Russians might be overreacting. If Salman Rushdie had written such an imagined scenario in one of his books of so many words, would the Russian...
In this article: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Infinity Ward, Call of Duty, CNET, Russia, Chrome OS, and Android
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Sir Salman Rushdie and a 'rude' literary row
...down as editor of her books magazine, Granta, she left the literary world bemused. Now, Sir Salman Rushdie has entered the fray to deny that he had anything to do with Clark's departure after it was disclosed that she had rejected an...
In this article: Attorney General, Granta, Charlotte, Booker Prize, and Tetra Pak
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Independent.co.uk - Books | November 08, 2009
Salman Rushdie plans sequel to 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'
TheBookseller.com announced on November 6 that Salman Rushdie will write a sequel to his 1990s children's book Haroun and the Sea of Stories. While an official release date is not set, Luka and the Fire of Life is expected to be published by...
In this article: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Booker Prize, Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Jonathan Cape, Midnight's Children, and The Satanic Verses
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Daily Express | October 29, 2009
Rushdie's vampire puzzle
Rushdie will be making a trip to Transylvania SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE has booked a trip to Romania next month to find out why his books are so popular in Transylvania. The author has already made the acquaintance of one fan in Dracula country...
In this article: Dracula, Venice Film Festival, Padma Lakshmi, Sarah Palin, and New York
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Salman Rushdie makes the model companion
I am pleased to say that Sir Salman Rushdie still has some attraction to the fairer sex, after I disclosed yesterday that he had described his former girlfriend Pia Glenn as "an unstable person who carries around a large, radioactive bucket...
In this article: Nasdaq, Gordon Brown, Booker Prize, Harvard, and Hilary Benn
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Philly.com | October 22, 2009
Sideshow: Rushdie roasted by an ex
Former girlfriend Pia Glenn , in left photo with Salman Rushdie in April, says the writer is "dysfunctional" in his relations with women and can't get over his ex-wife, Padma Lakshmi, shown with him in 2006. Rushdie and Lakshmi have been...
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Daily Mail | October 21, 2009
Salman Rushdie brands former lover 'unstable' after she claims he is still obsessed with ex-wife
Last updated at 10:31 PM on 21st October 2009 Author Salman Rushdie has angrily called his ex-lover Pia Glenn 'unstable' and an 'accomplished liar'. Rushdie lashed out after actress Glenn claimed that the reason they broke up was because...
In this article: Padma Lakshmi
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New York Post | October 21, 2009
Salman rips Pia as 'unstable'
Last Updated: 11:41 AM, October 21, 2009 Posted: 12:33 AM, October 21, 2009 Salman Rushdie has hit back at his ex-girlfriend, Pia Glenn, blasting her as a "large, radioactive bucket of stress." The acclaimed author was infuriated after...
In this article: Padma Lakshmi, E mail, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, American Academy of Arts, Emory University, ESPN, and Spamalot
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his early fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was at the center of The Satanic Verses controversy, with protests from Muslims including Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, with Rushdie facing death threats and a fatwā (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, in February, 1989. In response to the call for him to be killed, Rushdie spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically, but was outspoken on the fatwās censoring effect on him as an author and the threat to freedom of expression it embodied.
He was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to literature" in June 2007,. He also holds the highest rank — Commandeur — in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University in 2007. In May 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence, published in June 2008.
In July 2008 Midnight's Children won a public vote to be named the Best of the Booker, the best novel to win the Booker Prize in the award's 40-year history.
- Name At Birth:
- Ahmed Salman Rushdie
- Birth Date:
- June 19, 1947
- Birthplace:
- Bombay, India
- Nationality:
- United Kingdom
- Occupation:
- Novelist, essayist
- Influenced By:
- Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka
- Subject:
- Criticism, travel
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