Meditations After an Attempted Murder’, attempts to 'come to grips with the event' after a near-fatal knife attack on him ...
In the words of Salman Rushdie why writing ‘Knife: Mediation After an Attempted Murder’ was of great significance to him he says, “To write it (the memoir) would be my way of owning what had happened, ...
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, ...
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born American Booker Prize winning author, said if the Palestinian state is created imminently ...
Salman Rushdie, who has argued for a Palestinian state for most of his life spoke against student protests supporting Hamas.
Salman Rushdie during a photocall ahead of the presentation of his book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder at the ...
During a literary festival in Germany, Rushdie made the remark while he was presenting his new novel, “Knife,” which ...
‘Art is a nail in the eye, a spike in the flesh’. When Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote this in his autobiography 1000 years of Joys and Sorrows, he was referring to the idea that art ...
Rushdie began life, straight out of Cambridge, as a struggling actor in London’s fringe theatre. But a friend who had just gotten himself a well-paid, glamorous job in advertising suggested that ...
It’s 1931. In Omaha, Nebraska, a girl and a boy, both aged seven, are playing on a swing set. A stray dog appears out of a ...
Controversial British-American author Salman Rushdie has sparked outrage by suggesting that a free Palestinian state would be inevitably governed by Hamas and "Taliban-like" in its essence. Speaking ...