Nearly six months after he was brutally attacked, Rushdie is recovering and releasing a new novel, with the literary world rallying to his side. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-01-25 16:58:49 UTC ]
Rejoice, Bellowheads: on December 12th, PBS is premiering the first-ever major documentary on Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Saul Bellow. Directed by Asaf Galay and featuring rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, and others, American Masters: The Adventures of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-12-09 09:54:28 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie's appearance at Chautauqua was a thrilling affirmation of the importance of unfettered arenas of intellectual exchange. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-15 14:09:46 UTC ]
As an aspiring writer I loved many exiled authors, from Márquez to Kundera, but with Rushdie the stakes were raisedIt was more than a decade ago when I was introduced to the work of Salman Rushdie, thanks to the recommendation of a writer in my homeland of Pakistan. As an aspiring writer myself,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-14 14:47:31 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie, the author of "The Satanic Verses," was brutally attacked just as he was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua Institution. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-12 22:05:09 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie—the former PEN America President and Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, and Joseph Anton—just sold a new novel, and it sounds like a doozy. Billed as a translation of an ancient Indian myth, Victory City—Rushdie’s fifteenth novel, his first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-01 15:22:16 UTC ]
Random House picks up a new novel by Salman Rushdie and a leadership guide by Bob Iger, Europa signs a British debut, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
In 1989, Iran’s ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses. PW’s in-depth coverage looked at the industry’s response to this unprecedented situation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-25 05:00:00 UTC ]
After previous seminars showcased work from Scotland and Wales, this year the focus is on writing from Northern Ireland. Chaired by novelist and non-fiction writer Glenn Patterson, director at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast – a familiar and popular name for British... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 12:14:57 UTC ]
The newsletter platform has poached big names including Salman Rushdie along with a slew of comic book authors from DC and MarvelThe subscription newsletter platform Substack announced on Wednesday it had signed an exclusive deal with Salman Rushdie – but he is just the latest in a growing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-03 08:00:22 UTC ]
The Booker Prize-winning author has reached a deal with the newsletter platform, where he plans to publish fiction and interact with readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-09-01 14:25:24 UTC ]
This summer, instead of squeezing one more book into our suitcases, we’ll need what we read to transport us to faraway places. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-27 06:00:00 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie is touring the UK and Ireland to celebrate the paperback release of his 2019 Booker Prize-nominated novel Quichotte. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-16 23:39:15 UTC ]
Novels by authors including Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Salman Rushdie have been recognised by the BBC in a new list of novels that have shaped the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-05 15:14:17 UTC ]
AFTER THE BIBLE, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is said to be the best-selling book of all time, with estimated sales of 500 million copies. In 2002, the Guardian surveyed 100 of the “world’s best authors” (including Salman Rushdie) regarding which book was the best of all time. Don Quixote... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-29 17:00:54 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie has hailed Angela Carter a "treasure" as English Heritage commemorates the author with a blue plaque at her former south London home. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-15 12:35:29 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Strout, Gary Shteyngart and Prince were among the authors she nurtured. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-09-10 22:55:59 UTC ]
The Booker Prize shortlist has been revealed with Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie in the running for the £50,000 prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 10:45:33 UTC ]
Two former winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, both made the cut—a week before Atwood's book, 'The Testaments,' has even been published. Lucy Ellmann, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, and Elif Shafak are also still in the race. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie's reimagining of "Don Quixote," plus the story of the woman who defied the Nazis in the world’s most dangerous horse race. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-30 04:00:00 UTC ]