Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie, FRSL, احمد سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 June 1947
CityMumbai, India
CountryIndia
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
I'm definitely post-something.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
I will come back to India - so deal with it.
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.