Salman Rushdie
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 03: Salman Rushdie attends TimeTalks Presents: Freedom and Moral Courage Salman Rushdie and Ai Wei Wei at Times Center on May 3, 2013 in New York City.
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
If we'd had another half an hour, it would have been nice to linger longer in childhood. There's a lot of fun in the novel with the kids: the first girl he ever kisses, the bicycle queen. I felt sad to lose her.
there's only one faith, for example, that kills you or wants to kill you if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet. There’s only one faith that kills you or wants to kill you if you renounce the faith. An ex-Muslim is a very dangerous thing. Talk to Salman Rushdie after the show about Christian versus Islam. So, you know, I’m just saying, let's keep it real.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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'Midnight's Children' review: Born with Inda
recommendation here is that if you haven't read Salman Rushdie 's magnificent and magical "Midnight's Children," don't -- not if you plan to see Deepa Mehta 's considerably less magical "Midnight's Children," which has many worthy qualities, not among them Read more »
Around the web
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How Arrested Development Revolutionized TV
of its social commentary have been comparable to the novel at its peak in the nineteenth century. No less a figure than Salman Rushdie has openly considered making the switch to the writers' room. "In the movies the writer is just the servant, the employee," from Esquire Read more »
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The birth of warring nations
Children” rates as an ambitious attempt to transform Salman Rushdie’s novel, considered his masterpiece by many critics, to the big screen. Covering the decades beginning in 1947 that saw India freed from colonial British rule and then splinter into Pakistan from Boston Herald Read more »
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Little magic or realism to be found in ‘Midnight’s Children’
Cast:Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran, Siddharth Director: Deepa Mehta Writer: Salman Rushdie, based on his book Playing at: Kendall Square Too many subplots spoil the broth in this tale about a man with a big nose and from Boston.com Read more »
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South Africa: Clash of Booker titans
Rushdie holding a copy of his book The Satanic Verses Photograph: Graham Turner Demostrators burn copies of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses in Bradford, 1989. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features South African novelist J.M Coetzee. Photograph: Reuters Anti-apartheid from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Oldest book award shortlist unveiled
Cardew and William Harvey, who solved the riddle of blood circulation. Also listed is a memoir by renowned novelist Sir Salman Rushdie. Joseph Anton, the pseudonym adopted by Rushdie while in hiding following the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, is a memoir from BBC News Read more »
