Salman Rushdie
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Special: Shabana Azmi turns 59Special: Shabana Azmi turns 59 Shabana Azmi-Nandita Das to come together for screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie's mythic Booker -award winning 1981 novel 'Midnight's Children'. Shabana Azmi has been invited to Kabul by the UN to be the... In this article: Shabana Azmi, My Name Is Khan, Surgery, Midnight's Children, Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan, UN, Salman Rushdie, and Kabul |
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Huffington Post | November 30, 2008
Karin Badt: Hindu-Muslim Conflict in New Indian Film
...International Film Festival. Her film, championed by Salman Rushdie, highlights a problem that is not often enough (except for now) discussed outside the country: the acute tension between Hindus and Muslims. Using an exciting (albeit...
In this article: Nandita Das, Mumbai, India, Ahmedabad, and Pakistan
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Reuters | November 11, 2008
Rushdie and Mehta bringing it back home for movie
...starred in two earlier Mehta films, "Fire" and "Earth," are on board to star in the project. Both Mehta and Rushdie were born in India, with the filmmaker eventually moving to Canada and the novelist to Britain. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
In this article: India, Midnight's Children, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Mehta, Earth, Fire, and Britain
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Times of India | September 01, 2008
Rushdie will introduce Nandita's film
...Children, Walk The Line and many more began their journey. The icing on the cake is the fact that Salman Rushdie will introduce this Indian piece d'art, while Nandita gets a hold of the ground beneath her feet. She must be flying high, na?
In this article: Nandita Das, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Little Children, Into the Wild, Walk the Line, Capote, Brokeback Mountain, and North America
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Bollywood World | November 07, 2008
Deepa Mehta to make film on Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'
...will also be in the cast. Making the announcement on the sidelines of the ongoing MIAAC Film Festival, Rushdie and Mehta said they will be co-writing the screenplay on the novel, which is spread over 600 pages. Published in 1981,...
In this article: Deepa Mehta, Midnight's Children, New York, Booker of Bookers Prize, Seema Biswas, Preity Zinta, Nandita Das, Heaven on Earth, and Bandit Queen
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Foreign films dominate Telluride Film Festival
...of the 2002 Indian train fire that killed 58 Hindus and provoked deadly religious riots. Author Salman Rushdie will appear with Das at the festival. A number of films that already have won acclaim overseas also will screen at Telluride,...
In this article: Telluride, Telluride Film Festival, Oscar, Nandita Das, United States, Turner Prize, and I've Loved You So Long
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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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