Salman rushdie articles
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
“'Words are the only victors,' Rushdie wrote in his last novel, 'Victory City.'"
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Leïla Slimani: ‘Salman Rushdie’s books made me feel I could become a writer’
The Lullaby author on identifying with Jo in Little Women, being terrified of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and why we’re still in debt to SteinbeckMy earliest reading memoryNils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey Through Sweden by Selma Lagerlöf. My grandmother, who grew up in Germany, read it to me when I was a child and then, when I was eight, she gave me a copy that I still have. I, too, dreamed of travelling and escaping, just like that little boy.My favourite book growing upLittle Women by Louisa May...
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Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly review – a harrowing first-person account of a knife attack
The British-Indian writer relives his horrific 2022 stabbing in shocking detail – and opens up about how heading back to the scene of the crime helped him‘One of the first things I thought when I saw him coming at me was: ‘Oh, it’s you ’ I did wonder if someone was going to jump out of an audience one day.” When news broke in August 2022 that the novelist Salman Rushdie had been stabbed by a man who invaded the stage during a literary event in Chautauqua, Pennsylvania, the impact of what had...