‘I don’t want to hide,’ says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa
After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant.
After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant.
Roth had his memorial service planned out, wanting as much laughter as tears.
Tributes poured in Sunday for Nobel prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, who has died aged 85, including from many of those who clashed with him. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said
Titles by a number of major authors and celebrities will be among the offerings from agencies at this year’s London Book Fair, which opens March 14. The London Book Fair
More than a quarter century after being slapped with a fatwa from Iran calling for his murder over his book “The Satanic Verses”, Salman Rushdie says the world has learned the “wrong lessons” about freedom of expression.
Put Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan on a stage and expect a night of high art and school boy humor, of reading, writing and Christopher Hitchens.
In recent years, Indian novelists writing in English, led by Salman Rushdie, have risen to the fore in world literature, winning prestigious prizes, keeping pace with Latin American writers, and keeping their Anglo-American counterparts at bay.
Authors including Salman Rushie are appealing to China to live up to its own constitution and laws guaranteeing freedom of the press on World Press Freedom Day.
As violent protests over a US-made film rock the Muslim world, Salman Rushdie publishes his account Tuesday of the decade he spent in hiding while under a fatwa for his book “The Satanic Verses”.
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