Tag: salman rushdie
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Salman Rushdie, Florence and Tang sculptures
Read more: Salman Rushdie, Florence and Tang sculpturesBookmaker Ladbrokes has installed Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence as the 4-1 favourite to win the Man Booker prize this year. I find the book hard to put down, having finished two-thirds of the novel in the last two days, getting the references easily as an Indian, but I wonder if it’s too exotic…
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Rushdie wins again
Read more: Rushdie wins againSo Midnight’s Children wins the Booker of Bookers award as the most popular of all the books which have won the Booker Prize now in its 40th year. I was enchanted when I read the book more than 25 years ago just after it won the Booker Prize and saw the author himself, Salman Rushdie,…
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Rushdie wants to write another children’s book
Read more: Rushdie wants to write another children’s bookSalman Rushdie has the same literary agent as Martin Amis and Philip Roth. Andrew Wylie must be three times lucky to represent such a triumvirate. Or is he? I don’t know about Roth, but Rusdhie and Amis are two of the most controversial — and stylish– writers around. But Rushdie is better. I would say…
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Congratulations, Sir Salman!
Read more: Congratulations, Sir Salman!Congratulations, Sir Salman! Kudos to Tony Blair and the Labour government for giving Salman Rushdie (picture taken from the BBC) a knighthood. I haven’t been blogging since my wife arrived from Calcutta (Kolkata) late last month to spend a month with me in Singapore. But how could I ignore the news of Rushdie being knighted…
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Who is Britain’s greatest living author?
Read more: Who is Britain’s greatest living author?Clockwise from top left: Amis, Pinter, Naipaul, Rushdie, Rankin, Stoppard, Rowling and Hornby (in the centre). If Martin Amis isn’t Britain’s greatest living author, who is? asks the Guardian today. Amis is certainly the flashiest. His brilliance with words simply dazzles. No one comes close except Salman Rushdie, whose name also came up in the…
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