By Salman Rushdie

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Prophet Muhammad Cartoons: Defend the right to be offended  [Open Democracy]  [20 Dec, 2006]

Muslims unite! A new Reformation will bring your faith into the modern era  [Times, UK]  [20 Dec, 2006]

9/11- Yes, This Is About Islam   [NY Times] [20 Dec, 2006]

Excerpts From Rushdie Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'  [NY Times]  [20 Dec, 2006]

Simple Truths and Apostles of Death - On his Open letter to Taslima Nasrin  [NY Times]  [20 Dec, 2006]

Gandhi: His philosophy of nonviolence and his passion for independence began a drive for freedom that doomed colonialism  [Times Magazine]  [20 Dec, 2006]

About Salman Rushdie

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Rushdie Affair: A fatwa on the family  [NY Times/The Australian; 23 Dec, 2006]

Thinking of Rushdie  [NY Times]  [20 Dec, 2006]

Critic's Notebook; Telling Truth Through Fantasy: Rushdie's Magic Realism  [NY Times] [20 Dec, 2006]

Rushdie Affair: All Is Not Lost: Art of Insult Survives 'New Britain'   [NY Times] [20 Dec, 2006]

The Legacy of Rushdie Affair  - Koenraad Elst [20 Dec, 2006]
 

Interviews with Salman Rushdie

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The Iconoclast: Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world.. [Reason Magazine]

Interview: Rushdie Unplugged  [20 Dec, 2006]

When Life Becomes a Bad novel: SALON Interview with Salman Rushdie  [20 Dec, 2006]

Enemy of the People and Media : David Croneberg Interviews Salman Rushdie  [20 Dec, 2006]
 

News about Salman Rushdie

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Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book, Found Slain [NY Times]  [20 Dec, 2006]

Remember Hitoshi Igarashi  - Frans Groenendijk  [18 June 2006]

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When life becomes a bad novel!

Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is a British-Indian essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is best known for the violent criticism that his book The Satanic Verses (1988) provoked in the Muslim community. After death threats and a fatwa by Ruhollah Khomeini, calling for his assassination, he spent years underground, appearing in public only sporadically. Between 2004 and 2006 he served as president of the PEN American Center. Personal life: Rushdie grew up in a Muslim family in Mumbai, India. When he was 14, his family moved to Pakistan. As a youth, he was educated at Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai and Rugby School in Warwickshire, England. He attended King's College at Cambridge in England. Following an advertising career with the firm Ayer Barker, he became a full-time writer. Rushdie is married to actress Padma Lakshmi, who is currently hosting Top Chef 2 on the Bravo (television network) in the US.

Salman Rushdie's Published works

• 1975: Grimus

• 1980: Midnight's Children

• 1983: Shame

• 1985: The Painter and the Pest (documentary film)

• 1987: The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

• 1987: The Riddle of Midnight (documentary film) - amazon.com

• 1989: The Satanic Verses

• 1990: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

• 1991: Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-1991

• 1992: The Wizard of Oz

• 1994: East, West

• 1995: The Moor's Last Sigh

• 1997: The Vintage Book of Indian Writing (1947 - 1997) (anthology, edited jointly with Elizabeth West)

• 1999: The Ground Beneath her Feet

• 2001: Fury

• 2002: Step Across this Line

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Awards

• Booker Prize for Fiction

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction)

• Arts Council Writers' Award

• English-Speaking Union Award

• "Booker of Bookers" or the best novel among the Booker Prize winners for Fiction

• Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger

• Whitbread Novel Award

• Writers' Guild Award (Children's Book)

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External links

1. Rushdie Featured in New York Times in 1999

2. Salman Rushdie on Wikipedia

3. Salman Rushdie Profile  [Contemporary writers]