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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

British writer of novels who was born in India; one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947)

1947-06-19
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Awards and Movements

Poeta Laureado dos EUA 2001National Poetry Series 1990

Some Poems

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
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Salman Rushdie Teaches Storytelling and Writing | Official Trailer | MasterClass
'It's the books that matter, not the knives': Salman Rushdie | The Conversation | BBC News India
Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage
Sir Salman Rushdie recalls New York knife attack two years on | BBC News
Why Salman Rushdie is disappointed in the younger generation
Salman Rushdie über den Moment des Attentats und seine Sorge vor einem Trump-Comeback | maischberger
From 2002: Salman Rushdie on life after fatwa
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Salman Rushdie & 'The Satanic Verses' : Whose Freedom? Whose Speech? (1989) - The Fifth Estate
Salman Rushdie fatwa: 30 years on - BBC Newsnight
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Sir Salman Rushdie thanks 'heroes' who saved his life during knife attack
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Salman Rushdie: Distorted Image of Islam
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Salman Rushdie: a life in writing | FT
Suspect in Salman Rushdie attack charged
Salman Rushdie can't see 'path of justice' in Israel-Gaza conflict | LBC
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in New York
People rush to aid Salman Rushdie after onstage attack at New York event
Why was Salman Rushdie attacked? | The Hindu
2012 Salman Rushdie QnA Session
What is so offensive about The Satanic Verses? | Why was Salman Rushdie targeted?
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Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy interview (1997)
Salman Rushdie on Magical Realism: True Stories Don't Tell the Whole Truth | Big Think
Novelist Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage - BBC News
Salman Rushdie: ‘Write for readers, not for critics’ | Big Think
The Enchantress of Florence | Salman Rushdie | Talks at Google
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Sir Salman Rushdie slaps down Yusuf Islam
Salman Rushdie on what his surgeon told him after 2022 attack | 60 Minutes

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