Salman Rushdie Quote

Rashid did not give in. Look how his hands move on the contols, he told her. In those worlds left-handedness does not impede him. Amazingly, he is almost ambidextrous. Soraya snorted with annoyance. Have you seen his handwriting? she said. Will his hedgehogs and plumbers help with that? Will his 'pisps' and 'wees' get him through school? Such names! They sound like going to the bathroom or what. Rashid began to smile placatingly. The term is , he began but Soraya turned on her heel and walked away, waving one hand high above her head. Do not speak to me of such things, she said over her shoulder, speaking in her grandest voice. I am in-console-able.

Salman Rushdie

Rashid did not give in. Look how his hands move on the contols, he told her. In those worlds left-handedness does not impede him. Amazingly, he is almost ambidextrous. Soraya snorted with annoyance. Have you seen his handwriting? she said. Will his hedgehogs and plumbers help with that? Will his 'pisps' and 'wees' get him through school? Such names! They sound like going to the bathroom or what. Rashid began to smile placatingly. The term is , he began but Soraya turned on her heel and walked away, waving one hand high above her head. Do not speak to me of such things, she said over her shoulder, speaking in her grandest voice. I am in-console-able.

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About Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. Numerous killings and bombings have been carried out by extremists who cite the book as motivation, sparking a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence. In 2022, a man stabbed Rushdie after rushing onto the stage where the novelist was scheduled to deliver a lecture at an event in Chautauqua, New York.In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999. Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him 13th on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015. Earlier, he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the events following The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in April 2023.