Salman Rushdie Fatwa

Does Salman Rushdie Deserve A Nobel Prize?

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2011

Anis Shivani

I don't expect for a moment for this to happen, but I believe no other writer on the face of the earth comes as close to deserving the next Nobel award for literature as Salman Rushdie.

Yusuf Islam, Salman Rushdie And Censorship

Michael Gilmour | Posted 10.09.2011

Michael Gilmour

Free speech, open dialogue and respect for those who differ ought to be prized values in any society, and when absent, travesties like the horrific reactions to "The Satanic Verses" occur.

Salman Rushdie Memoir Coming In 2012

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A memoir by Salman Rushdie is coming in 2012. Random House, Inc. said Thursday it will release the book by the author best known for...

Salman Rushdie Memoir Coming

The New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Salman Rushdie is writing a memoir that will recount his years in hiding after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered Muslims to kill him because of ...

Salman Rushdie Fatwa No Longer Affects His Daily Life, Author Says

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

TORONTO — Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie says the death sentence imposed on him by Iran's late leader no longer affects his daily life, but the...

Salman Rushdie Archive Opens At Emory University This Week

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 05.25.2011

ATLANTA — Novelist Salman Rushdie said Tuesday he plans to write a book about his decade in hiding under a death threat from the Iranian governm...

Ian McEwan Sheltered Salman Rushdie After Fatwa Was Issued

The Guardian | Ed Pilkington in New York | Posted 05.25.2011

In the folklore of English letters, the literary friendship between the four dominant voices of the modern British novel - Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie,...

Salman Rushdie: Fatwa "The Albatross Around My Neck"

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Nearly 20 years after being driven underground by a religious decree, he is now Sir Salman Rushdie, properly famous and free, yet sti...