Salman Rushdie

A community portal about Salman Rushdie with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Salman Rushdie 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 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.

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VOICE OF FREEDOM

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SALMAN RUSHDIE - “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it, or offer your own version in return.” SALMAN RUSHDIE –“How to defeat terrorism: Don’t be terrorized. Don’t let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.” SALMAN RUSHDIE –“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” SALMAN RUSHDIE –“Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.” SALMAN RUSHDIE –“Terrible things are being done today in the name of Islam, but simplification of the issue, when it involves omitting every thing ... Read Full Story

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Salman Rushdie on Adapting Literature into Film

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'What is essential? It's one of the great questions of life, and, as I've suggested, it's a question that crops up in other adaptations than artistic ones. The text is human society and the human self, in isolation or in groups, the essence to be preserved is a human essence, and the result is the pluralist, hybridised, mixed-up world in which we all now live. Adaptation as metaphor, to paraphrase Susan Sontag, adaptation as carrying across, which is the literal meaning of the word "metaphor", from the Greek, and of the related word "translation", another form of carrying across, this time derived from Latin.' ... Read Full Story

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Salman Rushdie Is Still The World’s Smallest Pimp

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Pimpin ‘ ain’t easy. But apparently it is, if you have a fatwa issued against you. You might even be able to use that as a pick-up line. Baby, I’m gonna press my fatwa against you, and you’re going to love it. This is a story about Salman Rushdie getting with women. Put on your ear-muffs. Haters gon' hate. Recently, Salman’s ex-Pia Glenn, best known for playing Lil’ Condoleezie Rice in Will Ferrell’s stage production of George W. Bush has come out swinging against him, saying he’s a mean, manipulative little prick. That he’s still obsessed with Padme Lakshmi. He fought back with words ... Read Full Story

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Rushdie dubs 'Slumdog Millionaire' ridiculous

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British-Indian author Salman Rushdie has attacked the plot of multiple Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as a "patently ridiculous conceit". Rushdie wrote in Britain's Guardian newspaper that the central feature of the film -- that a boy from the Mumbai slums manages to succeed on the Indian TV version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" -- "beggars belief." "This is a patently ridiculous conceit, the kind of fantasy writing that gives fantasy writing a bad name," the author of "The Satanic Verses" said in the article published Saturday. Rushdie said the central weakness of the film -- which won eight Oscars -- was that ... Read Full Story

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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey: Salman Rushdie

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Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Bombay-born novelist Rushdie (Midnight’s Children) visited Nicaragua in 1986 and here writes of poetry recitals, political rallies, meetings with peasants, soldiers and members of the opposition. PW noted that Rushdie believes the Sandinistas have made mistakes but that “the Nicaraguan people have a right not to be ’squashed’ by the United States.” Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Indian writer Rushdie adds his personal narrative to the crescendo of anti-contra books. He,too, finds little to support unbridled U.S. intervention in violation of ... Read Full Story

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Sir Salman Rushdie and a 'rude' literary row

When Sigrid Rausing the Tetra Pak heiress announced this summer that Alex Clark was stepping down as editor of her books magazine Granta she left the literary world bemused.

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