Salman Rushdie

Source: www.forbes.com --- 31 days ago
The author was excluded from the acclaimed Man Booker list, which could hurt his book sales. ...

Source: blogs.guardian.co.uk --- 31 days ago
Ahead of the official announcement of the Man Booker shortlist at midday, the prize's PR firm has managed to let slip what will be the big Booker story: Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence has failed to make the cut.... ...

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 32 days ago
He is a winner of the Booker, the Booker of Bookers and the Best of Booker, but history failed to repeat itself today for Sir Salman Rushdie when he was left off the shortlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. ...

Source: venki.sulekha.com --- 34 days ago
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Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 19 days ago
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Source: corner.nationalreview.com --- 23 days ago
Via Tom Gross: Salman Rushdie's coffin being prepared at the 'International Exhibition of the Koran,' at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in central Tehran this week. (There is also a coffin for the state of Israel in the background.) ...

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- 10 days ago
LONDON - Salman Rushdie says he does not regret having written "The Satanic Verses," the book that drew an Iran-sponsored death sentence and forced him to spend... ...

Source: www.mirror.co.uk --- 10 days ago
Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is still glad that he wrote his controversial novel The Satanic Verses in an interview coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the publication of the book. ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 10 days ago
LONDON -- Salman Rushdie says he does not regret having written "The Satanic Verses," the book that drew an Iran-sponsored death sentence and forced him to spend years in hiding. ...

Source: features.csmonitor.com --- 10 days ago
Talk about Banned Books Week. Just at the moment, it’s hard to imagine a title more uncomfortable or more controversial than “The Jewel of Medina,” the story of A’isha, child bride of the prophet Mohammed, by American author Sherry Jones. ...

Source: upcoming.yahoo.com --- 16 days ago
Salman Rushdie presents The Best American Short Stories 2008 Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen. Tonight the award-winning author and essayist opens the Selected Shorts season. As guest editor of "The Best American Short Stories 2008," Rushdie introduces two of his most compelling picks for this year’s anthology by Kevin Brockmeier and Tobias Wolff. Stories performed by Jane Alexander and Anthony Rapp (original cast of "Rent"). Tickets available at www.symphonyspace.org Symphony Space Broadway and 95th Street 212-864-5400 ...

Source: www.weeklystandard.com --- 12 days ago
The Sunday Times reports that over the weekend book publisher Martin Rynja had his London home firebombed by three Muslims who found one of the books his firm is publishing to be blasphemous: Security officials believe Rynja was targeted for assassination because his firm, Gibson Square, is preparing to publish a romantic novel about Aisha, child bride of the Prophet Muhammad. The Jewel of Medina, by the first-time American author Sherry Jones, describes an imaginary sex scene between the prophet and his 14-year-old wife. It was withdrawn from publication in America last month after its publisher there, Random House, said it feared a violent reaction by “a small radical segment” of Muslims. It said “credible and unrelated sources” had warned that the book could incite violence. Random House reacted after Islamic scholars objected to its contents, saying it treated the wife of the Prophet as a sex object. One of them, Denise Spellberg, of the University of Texas at Austin, described the novel as “soft-core pornography”, referring to a scene in which Muhammad consummates his marriage to Aisha. She called it “a declaration of war” and a “national security issue”. At the time, her warnings were dismissed by the author. “Anyone who reads the book will not be offended,” said Jones. “I wrote the book with the utmost respect for Islam.” However, Jones admitted receiving death threats after the book was withdrawn. It would have been perfe ...

Source: www.thefirstpost.co.uk --- 32 days ago
Salman Rushdie has failed to make the Man Booker Prize shortlist, despite being widely tipped to win the £50,000 award for his novel The Enchantress of Florence. Among the six… ...

Source: www.towleroad.com --- 33 days ago
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Source: www.cm-life.com --- 9 days ago
Author Salman Rushdie will make his long-awaited appearance at 7 p.m. Monday in Warriner Hall's Platcha Auditorium. Rushdie, the knighted, award-winning author whose work has generated an Islamic fatwa against him, will speak as part of the campus Speaker Series. ...

Source: publish.flashapi.vx.roo.com --- 11 days ago
Salman Rushdie talks to Clive James about the British influence on India and its literature ...

Source: totallylookslike.com --- 17 hours ago
Director Stanley Kubrick Totally Looks Like author Salman Rushdie Submitted by anon        ...

Source: publish.flashapi.vx.roo.com --- 11 days ago
Salman Rushdie talks about Gandhi and the Amritsar massacre with Clive James ...

Source: www.cadenhead.org --- 32 days ago
There were some surprises in today's announcement of the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize -- the books by betting favorites Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence , and Joseph O'Neill, Netherland , didn't make the cut. Literary critic Joseph Sutherland was so sure Rushdie would win the Booker that he wrote , "If The Enchantress of Florence doesn't win this year’s Man Booker I'll curry my proof copy and eat it." (He backed off the promise today.) The nominees for the prize, which will be announced Oct. 14: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies Linda Grant, The Clothes on Their Backs Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole I expected Netherland , which I recently reviewed , to make the list. I'm currently reading The Secret Scripture , the only one of the shortlisted books that made it across the ocean to my local Barnes & Noble. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 33 days ago
Bookmakers Ladbrokes has installed Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence as the 4-1 favourite to win the Man Booker prize this year. ...