Salman Rushdie
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 76 |
Web site | www.salmanrushdie.com |
Date of birth | June 19,1947 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Mumbai |
India | |
Spouse | Rachel Eliza Griffiths |
Children | Zafar Rushdie |
Milan Rushdie | |
Height | 170 (cm) |
Movies/Shows | Next People |
Then She Found Me | |
Great Writers: Salman Rushdie | |
Concerning the Bodyguard | |
River of Fundament | |
Paperback Dreams | |
Odd Streets Run West | |
Bosch, the Garden of Dreams | |
Midnight's Children | |
Bridget Jones's Diary | |
Awards | Booker Prize |
The Best of the Booker | |
James Joyce Award | |
St. Louis Literary Award | |
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award | |
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service | |
Official site | salmanrushdie.com |
Education | King's College, Cambridge |
King's College | |
Cambridge | |
Parents | Negin Bhatt |
Anis Ahmed Rushdie | |
Books | The Satanic Verses |
Midnight's Children | |
Shame | |
Quichotte | |
Alma mater | King's College |
Cambridge | |
Nationality | American |
British | |
Indian | |
Albums | Die satanischen Verse (Ungekürzt) |
Genres | Realism |
Postcolonialism | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 407754 |
Salman Rushdie Life story
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.
Booker Prize 2023: Ireland's Paul Lynch wins with Prophet Song
... Previous winning authors include Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Bernardine Evaristo and Salman Rushdie...
Jon Fosse: Norwegian author and playwright wins Nobel Literature Prize
... There was no public shortlist for the award, but Salman Rushdie, Can Xue, Margaret Atwood and Haruki Murakami were thought to be among the other possible contenders...
Sir Salman Rushdie says he has 'crazy dreams' about attack in New York
...By Razia Iqbal & Leisha Chi-SantorelliBBC NewsSir Salman Rushdie says he is physically " more or less OK" nearly a year after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in New York...
Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, dies aged 94
... He issued an unprecedented and heated denial to Czech news agency CTK, prompting an open letter of support from fellow writers including JM Coetzee and Salman Rushdie...
Michael Rosen 'honoured' to win PEN Pinter Prize
... Previous winners of the prize include Malorie Blackman, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay, as well as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Tom Stoppard and Carol Ann Duffy...
Sir Salman Rushdie writing again following attack
...By Emma PetrieArts and culture reporterBritish novelist Sir Salman Rushdie said he has started writing again after being attacked in New York last year...
British novelist Martin Amis dies aged 73 - reports
... The Rachel Papers was the first of a string of notable works, which alongside writing by contemporaries like Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie, and Ian McEwan, are considered defining works of the 1980s...
Davina McCall and Sir Salman Rushdie win at British Book Awards
... Novelist Sir Salman Rushdie was also honoured, nine months after being attacked on stage in New York...
Davina McCall and Sir Salman Rushdie win at British Book Awards
By Emma Petriearts and culture reporter
A book about the menopause by TV presenter Davina Mccall has scooped The Top prize at The British Book Awards.
Menopausing, by McCall and Dr Naomi Potter, was named overall book of the year.
The so-called " Davina effect" saw a huge increase in demand for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after a Channel 4 documentary on the subject.
Novelist Sir Salman Rushdie was also honoured, Nine Months after being attacked On Stage in New York .
McCall and Potter's Menopausing was praised by a panel of judges which included Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy, broadcaster Anita Rani , and DJ Vick Hope .
Six months after publication, it continues to rank highly in the bestseller charts.
Guru-Murthy said The Book had helped to start a national conversation about menopause.
He Said the broadcaster and the menopause doctor had produced an authoritative and entertaining book about " an important and ignored subject".
Long Lost Family presenter McCall has previously said she though she had a brain tumour or Alzheimer's when suffering from perimenopausal symptoms.
Her experience with her changing hormones led her to the decision to campaign to increase awareness and destigmatise the menopause.
Her Channel 4 documentary Sex, Myths and Menopause was broadcast in 2021 and Menopausing was published in September 2022.
HRT prescriptions rose by 42% in the Last Year leading to
Meanwhile, Sir Salman Rushdie said he was proud to receive the Freedom to Publish award on behalf of " everybody fighting that fight".
The award-winning writer lost The Vision in one eye and spent Six Weeks in hospital after.
He has long faced death threats for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
In his acceptance speech, He Said : " We Live in a moment, I think, at which freedom of expression, freedom to publish has not in my lifetime been under such threat in the countries of The West . "
The author said the freedom to publish was also the freedom to read what you want without it being decided For You externally.
Rushdie voiced concern about The Loss of libraries and books for children in schools.
He described it as an " extraordinary attack" and added: " It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard. "
He also warned publishers against altering The Work of authors like Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming . He Said they should resist that and allow books " to come to us from their time and be of their time. "
Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller and chair of the judging panel said publishers had played a role in Creating Conversations around " Mental Health , misogyny, sexuality and gender, the menopause and more".
Others who were recognised at the awards, which were held in London on Monday evening, include:
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com