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...
Michael Rosen 'honoured' to win PEN Pinter Prize
Author Michael Rosen has said he feels " greatly honoured" to have been awarded this year's PEN Pinter Prize.
The award is for writers of " outstanding literary merit" who take an " unflinching" look at The World .
Known for beloved children's books like We're Going On A Beat Hunt, Rosen has also tackled subjects like migration and The Holocaust for young readers.
English Pen chair Ruth Borthwick called the ex-children's laureate " one of our most tenacious and fearless writers".
She Said : " He is one of our most significant contemporary poets writing for Young People .
" In over 140 books, he has championed a way of writing for children which reflects their everyday worlds, using humour and wordplay to validate their imaginative ways of thinking and being, and which has informed his succinct interventions into the lifeless way that children are taught literacy in schools. "
In 2021, Rosen published an account of his experience of being left in a coma with Covid-19, when hospital staff pinned a 2008 poem he wrote for the NHS's 60th anniversary above his bed.
" Even Covid couldn't silence him! " added Borthwick, noting how the judges were " thrilled and honoured" to name him as The Winner .
The Prize was Set Up in memory of Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter in 2009 by English Pen , a charity that says it defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature.
Rosen, 77, said winning brought to mind " the many people all over The World incarcerated, tortured or executed for being Brave Enough to write about what they perceive to be injustice".
Rosen is currently professor of children's literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, having served as children's laureate from 2007 to 2009.
He will receive the award at a ceremony co-hosted by The British Library on 11 October, where he will reveal the identity of an international " writer of courage" who he has chosen to share his award.
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.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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