SALMAN RUSHDIE

A preview of the fiction, biographies, memoirs, mysteries and more to watch for in the new year.

Biden administration needs an Iranian reset that would start with firing Special Envoy Malley, enforce existing US and UN sanctions and support the people.

Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead.

The U.S. is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that put a bounty on the head of British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event.

After the attack, Rushdie was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he was briefly put on a ventilator to recover from what Wylie told El Pais was a “brutal attack” that cut nerves to one arm. Wylie told the newspaper he could not say whether Rushdie remained in a hospital or discuss his whereabouts. The attack was along the lines of what Rushie and his agent have thought was the “principal danger … a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking,” Wylie told El Pais. Wylie told the newspaper it was like Beatles member John Lennon’s murder. In a jailhouse interview with The New York Post, Matar said he disliked Rushdie and praised Khomeini.

Literary agent Andrew Wylie told newspaper El Pais that Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more wounds to his chest and torso after a stabbing attack in August.

In an interview with El País, Andrew Wylie said novelist Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in August, lost vision in one eye and the use of one of his hands.

The author's literary agent discussed his injuries in an interview with El País over the weekend.

Salman Rushdie's agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at an August literary event in western New York.

Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.”.

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm

French author Annie Ernaux has staunchly defended a woman's right to abortion after winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster.

What troubles me when the censorious types speak is not that they speak but that their response is to call for less speech.

What I learned in the space between death threats and bodyguards

The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors say they need more time to review it.

When the author was attacked earlier this month, he was taking the stage at New York's Chautauqua Institution. The storied place in American cultural life is now rethinking how open it should be.

For dissident writers fleeing persecution overseas, the United States has long been a safe haven, a place where freedom of expression is tolerated and, even, valued.

The Biden administration says it has responded to Iran’s latest offer to resume its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, but neither side is offering a definitive path to revive the agreement, which has been on life-support since former President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018.

The Biden administration is expected to weigh in this week on Iran’s latest offer to resume its compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but neither side is offering a definitive path to revive the agreement, which has been on life-support since former President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018.

For one young Iraqi man, discovering the writer’s work opened up a world beyond Islamic orthodoxy.

Friends and fellow authors have spoken out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library.

Writers Jeffrey Eugenides, Roya Hakakian, Kiran Desai, Tina Brown, Gay Talese and others gave live readings from the author's work as he recovered from a brutal attack.

The Biden administration faces new and potentially insurmountable domestic political hurdles to forging a lasting agreement.

The Biden administration faces new and potentially insurmountable domestic political hurdles to forging a lasting agreement.

The Biden administration faces new and potentially insurmountable domestic political hurdles to forging a lasting agreement.

Last week's attack has reignited debates over free speech, censorship and offensiveness that were already heated back in 1989, when an op-ed by a former president called Rushdie's book an "insult."

Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to murder former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

The Chautauqua County district attorney said that Hadi Matar stabbed the author a dozen times in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye, before he could be stopped by shocked bystanders.

Hadi Matar, 24, appeared in a New York courtroom after a grand jury indicted him on charges that he rushed the stage and stabbed Salman Rushdie.

The author continues to recover from the stabbing last week.

The 24-year-old New Jersey man is set to appear on the charges today in a western New York courtroom.

A judge has refused to grant bail to the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York.

British-era laws against insulting religion led to the banning of “The Satanic Verses” 30 years ago and continue to exact a high price in the subcontinent today.

The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the accomplished author had survived the attack. Speaking to the New York Post from jail, Hadi Matar said he decided to see Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution after he saw a tweet last winter about the writer's planned appearance. Matar, 24, said he considered late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “a great person” but wouldn't say whether he was following a fatwa, or edict, issued by Khomeini in Iran in 1989 that called for Rushdie’s death after the author published “The Satanic Verses.”

The stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has laid bare divisions in Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim community

The stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has laid bare divisions in Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim community.

Salman Rushdie was marked for death and celebrated as an icon after writing "The Satanic Verses." Last week's near-fatal attack reminds us of the stakes

Henry Reese, who was about to speak with the writer before he was attacked, has made it his life’s work to provide a safe place for endangered writers.

Dr. Ricardo Cruciani, a neurologist convicted last month of sexually abusing patients, reportedly committed suicide at a New York City jail on Monday. Cruciani was awaiting sentencing at the time of his death, and faced up to life in prison.

Salman Rushdie, known for his controversial work "The Satanic Verses," was stabbed in New York before a lecture. Here's what we know about the attack.

In 1992, Salman Rushdie took a secret trip to Washington to plead for help.

Salman Rushdie's appearance at Chautauqua was a thrilling affirmation of the importance of unfettered arenas of intellectual exchange.

While Iran hasn't focused on author Salman Rushdie in recent years, a decades-old Islamic edict demanding his killing still stands.

After her tweet backing the author, someone tweeted to her, "Don't worry you are next."

Tehran, in its first public reaction, said Salman Rushdie and his supporters were to blame for an attack that left the “Satanic Verses" author with severe injuries.

An Iranian government spokesperson added that Iran did not "have any other information more than what the American media has reported."

An Iranian government official is denying that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, in remarks that were the country’s first public comments on the attack

An Iranian government official has denied that Tehran was involved in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie.

Chautauqua County Jail/Handout via ReutersThe mother of the man accused of leaping onstage to attack author Salman Rushdie condemned her son on Sunday, saying he was responsible for his own actions and that his family would be moving on “without him.”Born Muslim in Lebanon, Silvana Fardos has been in the U.S. for more than 25 years, she told the Daily Mail. She’d never heard of Salman Rushdie before getting a frantic phone call from her daughter on Friday, she said.“I never read any of his books

The notorious fatwa has a complicated history that still plays out, decades later, in Iran’s politics and relations with the U.S.

The author is recovering, but it would be a long process, Rushdie's agent said. His injuries include a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye.

This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression.

Rushdie's agent said Sunday that the renowned novelist had sustained "severe injuries" but that he was on the road to recovery.

Salman Rushdie's agent says the author is “on the road to recovery” two days after suffering serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York.

Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP PhotoNEW YORK – The man accused in the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime, as the renowned author of “The Satanic Verses” remained hospitalized with serious injuries. “This was a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack on Mr. Rushdie,” Schmidt said. Investigators were working to determine whether the assailant, born a decade after “The Satanic Verses” was published, acted alone. The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included an around-the-clock armed guard.

The man accused of a stabbing attack on "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie has entered a not-guilty plea to charges of attempted murder and assault. (Aug.13) (AP video: Carolyn Thompson)

Efforts are bound to be made to somehow equalize or level the acts of Rushdie and his tormentors and would-be executioners. This is a despicable viewpoint.

A brief history of the Chautauqua Institution, site of the Salman Rushdie attack.

The author would like to be known for more than The Satanic Verses controversy. We can do something about that.

Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked this week. He has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988.

Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked this week. He has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988.

The author will likely lose an eye, and the nerves in his arm were "severed" and his liver was "stabbed and damaged," his agent said.

Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, was stabbed on stage before his scheduled lecture in NY.

His agent said the writer was on a ventilator with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose.

Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after being stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture.

Iranians are reacting with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie — the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death.

By chance, Associated Press reporter Joshua Goodman was at the venue in western New York when author Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday.

Salman Rushdie's agent says the writer is on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck and abdomen on a western New York stage where he was about to give a lecture.

Actor Damian Lewis and crime writer Ian Rankin are among hundreds of Britons honored by Queen Elizabeth II as she celebrates 70 years on the throne.

South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for fiction on Nov. 3 for his novel “The Promise,” the story of a white South African family in decline in the years before and after the end of the racist apartheid system.

The letter comes amid a debate over so-called cancel culture where prominent people face attack for sharing controversial opinions. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy, the letter said. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercionwhich right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. In a series of tweets, Rowling said she supported transgender rights but did not believe in erasing the concept of biological sex. The letter criticized the state of public debate and the swift and severe retribution dealt out to any perceived wrongs.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - On Sept. 12, join Salman Rushdie in conversation with Rich Fahle at the University of Michigan Rackham Auditorium at 7 p.m. The novel will be available for pickup prior to the event at Rackham Auditorium and copies of Rushdies other novels will available for purchase for those looking to expand their own libraries. This author event is part of the Literati Bookstore Presents fall series, which brings nationally and internationally known authors to Ann Arbor. Other authors scheduled for talks include Ann Pratchett, Andr Aciman and Sister Helen Prejean. Rackham Auditorium is at 915 East Washington St.All About Ann Arbor is powered by ClickOnDetroit/WDIV.