Rushdie will not promote his 15th novel because of his physical condition, although his agent said his ‘recovery is progressing’
Rushdie, 75, was left on a ventilator with multiple stab wounds after he was attacked at a literary event Friday in western New York state
The British author of “The Satanic Verses” had to be airlifted to hospital for emergency surgery following the attack
Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels
Coming to terms with the politics of nostalgia amid the myths of the Rainbow Nation is hard to do
Twenty eight years after The Satanic Verses was first published, Iran has renewed its efforts in the fatwa issued against author Salman Rushdie.
A first-time South African novelist’s admiration for Salman Rushdie saw her physically attacked and allegedly forced into a mental institution.
"She would not have avoided a conversation. But debate, conversation and engagement are not possible in the face of violence."
The savage attack on Zainub Dala shows the terror of the freedom to use words, and the desire to obliterate them.
The SA Muslim community condemns assaults on author Zainub Priya Dala in Durban after she expressed admiration for Salman Rushdie’s writing style.
Durban writer Zainub Priya Dala believes she was assaulted for expressing admiration for controversial novelist Salman Rushdie, her publisher said.
Helen Zille’s thwarted march to Nkandla and SA’s slide into mediocrity is like something out of a book. But it’s all too real, writes Verashni Pillay.
Salman Rushdie said that if a fatwa calling for his murder had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his life.
In a South Africa exclusive, M&G books editor Darryl Accone speaks to award-winning writer Salman Rushdie about his new memoir ‘Joseph Anton’.
Listen to the full podcast of our exclusive interview with best selling author Salman Rushdie about his latest book ‘Joseph Anton – A Memoir’.
A new film adaptation of ‘Midnight’s Children’, Salman Rushdie’s novel about India after independence, might not be shown in his native land.
Salman Rushdie is the subject of an Iranian computer game aimed at spreading the message about his "sin" against Islam to new generations.
Salman Rushdie, author of ‘The Satanic Verses’, is the subject of an Iranian computer game aimed at spreading the message about his "sin".
Salman Rushdie has damned politicians for giving in to the "false" leaders of India’s Muslims after he was threatened with violence.
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/ 17 January 2012
British author Salman Rushdie’s planned appearance at the literary festival has been thrown into doubt after protests from influential Muslim clerics.
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/ 11 January 2012
<i>The Satanic Verses</i> author’s latest visit to his Indian homeland has angered some Muslim clerics.
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/ 7 September 2011
A call has been made from Saudi Arabia to local Muslims to ensure that the book is banned and Rushdie is stopped from coming here.
Salman Rushdie’s epoch-making novel <i>Midnight’s Children</i> is the best-ever winner of the Man Booker (literary) prize, according to a public vote.
Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize’s best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday gave British author Salman Rushdie a knighthood. He was knighted for his services to literature.
It is a subject that has engaged some of the biggest names in international letters: Don DeLillo in Falling Man, Ian McEwan in Saturday and Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Each attempted to explain in imaginary terms that great reordering of western life, which happened on 9/11 when New York’s Twin Towers were destroyed by al-Qaeda terrorists.
Postcolonial novels dominate the judges’ selection of some of the most revered novels of the past 40 years, writes Charlotte Higgins.
East meets West with a clash of cymbals in Salman Rushdie’s new novel, The Enchantress of Florence, writes Ursula le Guin.
United States President George Bush described his mood as ”a little wistful” on Saturday night as he attended his last White House correspondents’ dinner. The president, who is said by those around him to detest journalists, has given the impression down the years that he would rather be somewhere else.
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/ 26 February 2008
”I am alone next to the pool at Le Prince Maurice Hotel in Mauritius. In contrast, all the people around me are paired off. Every coupling is a story pitted with conflict, resolution, stalemates, passions, misunderstandings, wars and truces. A pity, then, how little hope they have of picking up a good modern novel and finding some reflection of, or consolation for, or explication of, their private experiences,” writes Tim Lott.
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/ 21 October 1988
Salman Rushdie was awarded the Booker in 1981 for <em>Midnight’s Children</em> and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Stranger for his novel <em>Shame</em>.
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/ 14 October 1988
The Book Week starts in Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre on October 31 and in Johannesburg’s Market Theatre on November 7.