Rushdie wins Booker of Bookers with 'Midnight's Children'

The Independent - London;  July 11, 2008 ;     517 words ......were also in the running. Rushdie's post-colonial story about...votes cast came from the US. Rushdie, 61, who was born in Mumbai but educated in...to people who were not even born when it was written." His...father's magnum opus, he was born just eight minutes before...protagonist of the ...

Rushdie satire infuriates Hindu extremists

The Independent - London;  August 29, 1995 ;     507 words ......Indian newspapers, and Rushdie, who was born in Bombay, can count...much a presence in Rushdie's novel as the hero, Moraes Zogoiby, born into a family of...perhaps understand Rushdie's wanting to take...with Mr Thackeray's. Rushdie writes: "He was against...those who had been ...

Assassin in our midst; Engaged, as ever, with the big, topical themes of...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  September 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ......themes than Salman Rushdie. One says British...Shalimar the Clown. Rushdie, born a Muslim in India...where her mother was born but where India has...Kashmir is where Rushdie's family came from...bastard daughter is born, called Kashmira...India. India (like Rushdie) is ...

Why is Salman smiling? Rushdie slowly emerges from the shadows with a new...

The Boston Globe;  January 31, 1996 ;     700+ words ......writer, either. Mostly, Salman Rushdie just seemed relieved. Surrounded...Four Seasons Hotel, the Indian-born British citizen was partaking...preceding it. The next morning, Rushdie spoke with gravitas and at...fiction about modern India, Rushdie achieved another level of celebrity...official ...

RUSHDIE DUMPS WIFE WHO 'SAVED HIS LIFE' SAME OLD STORY: FATWA WRITER ENDS...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  March 4, 2000 ;     565 words ......couple remain close friends but Rushdie has reportedly been seeking...in Britain with son Milan. Rushdie has refused to comment on...with Padma. The author was born in India but educated at Rugby...marrying in 1976. Not long after Rushdie first went into hiding, his second marriage - to ...

Tehran Paper Rejects Rushdie Moves

The Washington Post;  December 26, 1990 ;     526 words ......Verses." Iran subsequently offered a $1 million bounty for Rushdie's death. Rushdie has been in hiding ever since. The author announced his...Society for the Promotion of Religious Tolerance, said Rushdie had typed the statement himself. Essawy said Rushdie, who was born to a Moslem family ...

BOOK REVIEW: Salman Rushdie unleashes 'Fury'

University Wire;  September 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Fury is Rushdie's first book since this emergence. What Rushdie calls fury abounds in the minor, miniscule details of everyday life, something Rushdie has been forcibly removed from for more than a decade...New York is the most immediately obvious change from Rushdie's previous works. Malik ...

Renowned novelist Salman Rushdie comes to Florida State U.

University Wire;  February 19, 2008 ;     538 words ......in one of his novels, Salman Rushdie has endured enough tales to tell for a lifetime. Born in Mumbai, India in 1947, Rushdie was educated in both India...Midnight's Children," that Rushdie was recognized for his work...contentious work. In 1998, Rushdie published "The Satanic Verses...

Taking a stand while lacking a center: Rushdie's postmodern politics....

Philological Quarterly;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ......failed. Nonetheless, India exists, however tenuously, and Rushdie wants to see this multicultural, multi-ethnic experiment...competing and contradictory impulses, much as is India. Rushdie displays fascination with such composite characters starting...The unconventional nature of the protagonist attests to ...

Rushdie `Hopeful' About Ending Ordeal;Author Encouraged by Britain-Iran...

The Washington Post;  September 29, 1990 ;     700+ words ......heady and in some ways promising week for author Salman Rushdie. But the door to his invisible prison remains firmly locked...the end of his 19-month-long ordeal is nowhere in sight. Rushdie, a novelist who became a key figure in diplomatic relations...critics fear that the British government no longer ...

Perspective; The Islamic Taboos & Rushdie's Offense

The Washington Post;  February 18, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Salman Rushdie, born a Moslem, should have remembered...gone so far as to say that Rushdie should be executed, but even...sacred symbols as metaphors. Rushdie's dream-sequence chapters...family-all are building blocks of Rushdie's baroque tale, recounted...assassination of the ...

Chapter and Verse // Rushdie Tempts Fate Again To Assert Free-Speech Right

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ......doesn't believe in God, Salman Rushdie certainly writes a lot about...good stories," says the Indian-born British author. "And religion...s late Ayatollah Khomeini, Rushdie would have a bone to pick with...current as the day's headlines. Rushdie was in Chicago last week as...Barbara's. The ...

Rambunctious Rushdie // At play in the fields of rock, sex and religion

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ...For Salman Rushdie, "the big one" - the seismic...and calling for his death. Rushdie was no stranger to such radically...almost eerie prescience, "To be born again, first you have to die...the death threats lingering, Rushdie has created The Ground Beneath...Merchant, the world-famous ...

Pent up since 9/11, Rushdie's Fury released

India Abroad;  May 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......also knew I'd never be able to shut him up." Sinai, said Rushdie, picked up his book and ran with it. All Rushdie could do was hold on to Sinai's coat-tails. Rushdie has a lot in common with his best-known protagonist...narrator of Midnight's Children. Just like Saleem Sinai, Rushdie was ...

Rushdie enjoys freedom after death sentence.(News)

The Boston Herald;  September 6, 2001 ;     402 words ...Author Salman Rushdie says he doesn't look over his shoulder any more. Rushdie, who will be in Cambridge tonight to read from his new...Khomeini pronounced a death sentence - or fatwa - on Rushdie, and the author went into hiding for 10 years. He surfaced...turned and it's nice to be at the end of that ...