The Latest Breaking News from Salman Rushdie

The author describes the book, subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, as ‘a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art’

Salman Rushdie has written a memoir about the horrifying attempt on his life that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand

Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday

The old warhorse has come out for another battle. Sir Salman Rushdie, his eye covered with a patch from a terrifying attack last year by a young man who said he disliked his views on Islam, appeared last week at the National First Amendment conference in Philadelphia to discuss threats…

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The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

‘One of the preconditions for the rise of authoritarian strongmen is that people cease to believe in the truth,’ the author says

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Speaking in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Rushdie says US Republicans are moving away from democratic values including free speech

The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his country