Salman Rushdie: where to start with this pioneering and controversial author: Untitled design On the eve of India’s 75th anniversary of independence (August 15), the 75-year-old Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage in New York. Thankfully, the author survived the attack. But you might be wondering how a writer came to be the …
Salman Rushdie attack: the legacy of the decades-old fatwa on the author, explained: In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie. More than three decades later, at a literary event …
Salman Rushdie: My next novel will be very weird: The Booker Prize-winning novelist, 71, usually stays quiet about his works in progress, for fear of jinxing his novels. But the Midnight's Children author, who is in the UK preparing to speak at the London Literature Festival, told the Press Association he was working on the …