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100: Salman Rushdie
Tehrān :: Iran | 2 days ago
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981...His style is often classified as magical realism mixed...
Tags: Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Iran, Tehrān, Knights Bachelor, Postmodern literature, The Satanic Verses, Islam in the United Kingdom, Postcolonial literature, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses controversy, Entertainment Culture, Fatwas
UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran
Tehrān :: Iran | 8 days ago
Credibility The Iranian boy, known for legal reasons as Child M, has been locked up in Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire, the UK's main immigration removal centre for women and families, since he was arrested with his mother and older brother in Manchester this week. They...
Tags: Yarl, Iran Mother, Islamic Republic of Iran, satanic verses, old boy, Iran, Tehrān, Immigration detention, Salman Rushdie, Bedfordshire, Immigration to the United Kingdom, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
OMNIVORE: The story on the page
New York :: NY :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility From The American Scholar , living on $500,000 a year: What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times. Stefan Collini reviews The Letters of TS Eliot: vol 2 1923-1925 . As a career strategy, early, penniless death has at least...
Tags: New York, Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence, John Banville, The Paris Review, Salman Rushdie, Entertainment Culture, Postmodern literature, British Book Awards, Censorship in Turkey
Padma Lakshmi Still Haunting Salman Rushdie's Dreams [Broken Hearts]
Freeport :: Bahamas | about 1 month ago
Credibility Pia Glenn, a ludicrously tall 32-year-old stage actress, started dating Rushdie in September of 2007; Rushdie dumped her via e-mail (well, he is a writer , right?) in June. On Sunday, she told the Daily Mail that he was a coward, and today she tells the...
Tags: Pia Glenn, Salman Rushdie, Padma Lakshmi, radioactive bucket
Rushdie, Krugman featured at PEN festival
Pen :: India | 8 months ago
Credibility Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman will be among the authors featured at this spring's PEN World Voices Festival, the writers organization announced Wednesday. Now in its fifth year, the PEN festival will include...
Tags: PEN Festival Carries, PEN World Voices Festival, Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s Girl Friend in 'A Final Night with George W. Bush'
She is the old man’s latest muse, his newest girl friend. Pia Glenn, 6′1″ tall, 32 years of age is playing the role of Condoleezza Rice in a Broadway play and dating the 61-year-old, Salman Rushdie in real life. Pia’s...
Tags: Salman Rushdie, Girl Friend, Pia Glenn, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Condi, Bush, Broadway, You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush, play, Freudian slip, ex-Secretary of State, dialogue, George W. Bush, married, myVox
Finally, images of ?slums?
Mumbai :: India | 9 months ago
Credibility Gautam Bhan Posted: Feb 26, 2009 at 2322 hrs IST We've seen Bollywood dancers on an Oscar stage; two of the three nominees for Best Song being sung in a language nearly the entire audience couldn't even identify let alone speak; those in the bevy of...
Rushdie dismisses Slumdog Millionaire as unrealistic
Jaipur :: India | 9 months ago
Credibility Slumdog Millionaire may have waltzed through Oscars with eight trophies but that does not make it a favourite with India born author Salman Rushdie, who has dismissed it for being unrealistic. The Booker prize winning author dismissed the film publicly...
Tags: Jaya Bachchan Spicezee Bureau, Vikas Swarup, Salman Rushdie, India
Salman Rushdie slams 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility After all the furor that Stephen King sparked by dissing Stephenie Meyer's writing, you might have expected Salman Rushdie to think twice before hammering the movie "Slumdog Millionaire ." Nope -- not even on the night it was winning eight Academy Awards.
Tags: Salman Rushdie, slumdog millionaire, Atlanta
Novelist sheltered Rushdie after fatwa
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Ian McEwan , Salman Rushdie , Martin Amis and Julian Barnes - is already the stuff of legend. That was even before we learnt that for two of them the bond even extended to offering safe haven against the threat of state-sponsored assassins. Twenty years...
Tags: Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, leader ayatollah, Ayatollah Khomeini
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