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The British author was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

‘It’s kind of extraordinary to be able to say that I was friends with Lou Reed’ says author who was obsessed with the musician as a student

As the author publishes a new story collection, we rate the work that made his name – from his dazzling Booker winner to an account of the 2022 attack that nearly killed him

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Prestigious prize celebrates both literary merit and writers' commitment to promoting peace through their work

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author

Salman Rushdie’s new collection of short stories urgently recollects his literary legacy. It’s as though time is increasingly uncertain so the need to tell stories is great.

Oxfam says Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights while noting Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap. Plus, why Salman Rushdie’s therapist has called him a ‘badass’

Author was injured in multiple places and lost use of his right eye after assassination attempt during a lecture

It’s ordinary death — the bloke with a scythe — that stalks these stories, not an assassin

Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Her mother, Anita Desai, was already an accomplished novelist, who had been nominated for the Booker three times. The Inheritance of Loss was hailed as…