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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, including Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981. He is a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, and his books have been translated into over forty languages. His new novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights will be published in September 2015.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Salman Rushdie on Sunjeev Sahota

Salman Rushdie

‘You open a book by a writer you’ve never heard of and a new voice leaps off the page and makes you listen.’

In Conversation | Issue 3
In Conversation | Issue 3

Salman Rushdie | Interview

Salman Rushdie & John Freeman

‘I'm not quite the same person as the ‘me’ about whom the book is written.’

Fiction | Issue 3 padlock
Fiction | Issue 3 padlock

At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers

Salman Rushdie

‘The bidders who have assembled for the auction of the magic slippers bear little resemblance to your usual saleroom.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 31
Essays & Memoir | Issue 31

Is Nothing Sacred?

Salman Rushdie

‘I grew up kissing books and bread.’

Salman Rushdie defends the act of writing novels.

In Conversation | Issue 31 padlock
In Conversation | Issue 31 padlock

Salman Rushdie | Interview

Salman Rushdie & Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison interviews Salman Rushdie in 1990, one year after he was placed under fatwa.

Poetry | Issue 31 padlock
Poetry | Issue 31 padlock

Crusoe

Salman Rushdie

‘Let me tell you, boyo, bach: I love this place, where green hills shelter me from fear.’

Poetry | Issue 31 padlock
Poetry | Issue 31 padlock

6 March 1989

Salman Rushdie

‘Damn, brother. You saw what they did to my face? / Poked out my eyes. Knocked teeth out of place’.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 31 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 31 padlock

Eating the Eggs of Love

Salman Rushdie

‘Forested mesas flanked the road to Matagalpa; ahead, the multiform mountains, conical, twisted, sinuous, closed the horizon.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 31
Essays & Memoir | Issue 31

On Günter Grass

Salman Rushdie

‘Migrants – borne-across humans – are metaphorical beings in their very essence.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 31
Essays & Memoir | Issue 31

Outside the Whale

Salman Rushdie

‘For a man as truthful, direct, intelligent, passionate and sane as Orwell, ‘politics’ had come to represent the antithesis of his own world-view.’

Fiction | Issue 7
Fiction | Issue 7

The Golden Bough

Salman Rushdie

‘The same face. At every interview the same bland features. It could not be – but it was.’

Fiction | Issue 3
Fiction | Issue 3

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

‘He resolved never again to kiss earth for any god or man.’

An extract from Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

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