Salman Rushdie at 1988 Whitbread Book of the Year event CLEAN: Interior views of Salman Rushdie holding his book The Satanic Verses at the 1988 Whitbread Book of the Year prize event on 24 January 1989 in London, United Kingdom Save PURCHASE...
Opening the book on dissent.Presents the views of author Salman Rushdie on the offenses taken by readers to his book 'The Satanic Verses.' Characteristics of free speech; Reason for the occurrence of stereotyping; Experience of being demonized by the media; Inspiration for writing.Holdsworth...
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Reports on the FBI promise to protect bookstores from attacks in protest over the book `The Satanic Verses,' following the firebombings of two bookstores in Berkeley, California. President Bush's comments; Publishers and booksellers' meeting withgovernment officials. INSET: 24-hour security hotline...
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Salman Rushdie: Yeah. It was very difficult for me, after The Satanic Verses was published, that the only thing anybody knew about me was this death threat. Salman Rushdie: But it became clear to me that I couldn't write anything else. ...
Author Salman Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for his assassination in 1989, declaring Rushdie's novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous and an insult to Islam. After 10 years Rushdie came out of hiding and moved to the United States, where he ...
Elsewhere at the fair, one of the most anticipated authors featuring this year will be Salman Rushdie, who has appeared only rarely in public since a stabbing attack last year that nearly killed him. Rushdie, who has faced death threats since his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was declared...
Reading Notes of a Couch Potato: Satanic Verses Posted onMay 30, 2009by Matthew I am happy to hear that many of you are reading or planning to readThe Master and Margarita. To say the very least about the book, it’s a very clever story-within-a-story reading. The Master has simply...
‘The Satanic Verses’ is a pretty intense work combining fiction, historical realism and magical realism. It has two major storylines of two Muslim actors, who survive a terrorist attack to undergo bizarre transformations and another that explores the life of Prophet Muhammad in a fictionalized ...