On August 12, 2022, when Salman Rushdie was about to give a ... The masked man stabbed him repeatedly. But, Rushdie survived to tell his story. Some would say it is a miracle of destiny. Knife: ...
InterviewOn the eve of his 77th birthday, the author of 'The Satanic ... his singular familiarity with death. An American-British writer of Indian origin, Salman Rushdie achieved his first success ...
Salman Rushdie in a May 19 interview with Bild, a German newspaper: Right now, [one] has to be distressed by what is happening in Gaza because of the quantity of innocent death. I would just like ...
It's hard to think of a writer more contentious than Salman Rushdie. From death threats to fatwas, insult to injury, the Indian-born British-American author has carved out a career from controversy, ...
Is that Salman ... opinion we may be pleased to hold on the subject of death, we may be sure that it is meaningless and valueless. Death has not required us to keep a day free.” For so long ...
A young Salman ... author should concentrate on short stories until he has mastered the novel form.” When Midnight’s Children was finally accepted for publication by Jonathan Cape, Rushdie ...
In one of the richly reflective passages in Knife, Salman Rushdie ruminates on Coleridge’s analysis of Iago’s capacity to inflict violence sans rationale. This reference to the villain in Othello is ...
When Death comes very close to you,' you write ... The really remedial act is compassion. Salman Rushdie’s Knife is not a memoir of grievance or regret, but sharp gratitude for life I never wrote to ...
Now, however, there is for the first time the probability (according to the opinion polls) of the ANC not achieving an outright majority. This means that the election as such, will be no more than the ...