Rushdie

[ ruhsh-dee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Sal·man [sal, -m, uh, n], born 1947, British novelist and essayist, born in India.

Rushdie

/ ˈrʊʃðɪ /

RushdieSir (Ahmed) Salman1947MBritishIndianWRITING: novelist Sir ( Ahmed ) Salman (sʌlˈmɑːn). born 1947, British writer, born in India, whose novels include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, Shame (1983), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1998), and Shalimar the Clown (2005). His novel The Satanic Verses (1988) was regarded as blasphemous by many Muslims and he was forced into hiding (1989) when the Ayatollah Khomeini called for his death; knighted in 2007

It's for the crime of apostasy (in this case, writing a novel) that Ayatollah Khomenei sent death squads for Salman Rushdie.

Writer Benjamin Anastas has had enough with 140-character bursts, and Rushdie's mourning for Whitney Houston was the last straw.

But Susan Sontag, William T. Vollmann, Salman Rushdie, and Milan Kundera are all vocal fans of Kis.

It is undeniable that the Booker helped Rushdie get kind reviews in the upmarket press and elevated him further.

The tweets of Salman Rushdie or Colson Whitehead—who has even released fiction via Twitter—might someday find a home in books.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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