Salman Rusdie - portrait in brief
Title: Salman Rusdie - portrait in brief
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1396 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Salman Rusdie - portrait in brief
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1396 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Anglo-Indian novelist, who uses in his works tales from various genres - fantasy, mythology, religion, oral tradition. Rushdie's narrative technique has connected his books to magic realism, which includes such English-language authors as Peter Carey, Angela Carter, E.L. Doctorow, John Fowles, Mark Helprin or Emma Tennant. Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by the former Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on February 14,1989, after publishing SATANIC VERSES. Naguib Mahfouz, the winner of the 1988 Nobel
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enforced underground life. However, on September 1998 the Iranian government announced that the state is not going to put into effect the fatwa or encourage anybody to do so. According to interviews, Rushdie has decided to end his hiding. On February 1999 Ayatollah Hassan Sanei promised a 2,8 million dollar reward for killing the author. In the beginning of 2000 Rushdie left his third wife after falling in love with an actress and moved from London to New York.