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Rushdie, India and Britain: 20 years on from a satanic storm (London Eye)

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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The book was 'The Satanic Verses', its author was Salman Rushdie and those who did the burning were Muslims convinced that it blasphemed Islam. F ew among those who burnt the book and held up the smouldering pages while posing for photographers had bothered...

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Rushdie: 'I was never called Scruffy'

Tehrān :: Iran | about 1 year ago

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Micheline Pelletier/Corbis Sygma Twenty years after copies of the Satanic Verses were cast into pyres around the world and its author hounded into hiding after a fatwa against him, Salman Rushdie has once again found himself haunted by a controversial...

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Aussies nominated for Man Booker Prize

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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Google TWO Australian authors are in the running to win one of the literary world's top awards, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Steve Toltz and Michelle de Kretser are among 13 authors to have their novels selected from 112 entries and put on the so-called...

Tags: Salman Rushdie, booker prize, man booker, John Berger

Rushdie 'may write book on fatwa'

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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The author, who went into hiding for nine years, told BBC's Newsnight he had found the experience "very difficult". "I guess there's a story there," he said. "Various people [are] encouraging me to tell it, and maybe I will." Iran's late Ayatollah Khomeini...

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Hiding Out with Salman 'Scruffy' Rushdie [Fatwas]

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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According to one of the Special Branch officers assigned to protect author Salman Rushdie -whose protectors remember as "Scruffy"-when he went into hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini slapped him with a death sentence and put a put a price on his head...

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IS AUTHOR SALMAN RUSHDIE SEEING BOLLY HOTTIE?

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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And she's an Indian celeb who's linked with author Salman Rushdie...Sir Rushdie has struck up a close friendship with this young actress renowned for her risque Bollywood roles, reported the Daily Mail. The 61-year-old author, whose novel Midnight's Children...

Tags: Salman Rushdie, Padma Lakshmi, Riya Sen

New writing success for Salman Rushdie

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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Novelist Salman Rushdie yesterday claimed to have broken wine writer Malcolm Gluck's record for book signings after adding his full name to 1,000 books on a tour to promote his latest novel. "His record is toast," Rushdie crowed, in a letter to the Guardian.

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Salman Rushdie wins Booker competition

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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Now he is officially the best. � Rushdie's 1981 novel Midnight's Children was named yesterday as the greatest-ever winner of Britain's most prestigious literary award. The book received more than a third of the 7,801 votes cast in a competition...

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Salman Rushdie wins "Best of Booker" award

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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British author Salman Rushdie won the "Best of the Booker" prize on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. "Midnight's Children" won the Booker Prize in 1981, and the Indian-born writer was hot favourite...

Tags: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie Honored, booker prize, news, Bookers London, online poll, booker winners, author salman, 40th anniversary

Global poll closes, Rushdie tipped to win Best of Booker

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

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T he winner of the one-off award has already been decided, but the author's name will be announced to the world in a ceremony at London's Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival. The unique award to mark the 40th anniversary of the...

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