For which novel did author Salman Rushdie win a Booker Prize in 1981?
"a book a day – is absurd, as is the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer"".. The winner is usually announced at a ceremony in London's Guildhall, usually in early October. In 1993, to mark the prize's 25th anniversary, a """"Booker of Bookers"" Prize"" was given. Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", the 1981 winner, as ""the best novel out of all the winners."" In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a 'Best of Beryl' prize, for the author Beryl"
"Pakistan"" (1956), several short stories such as ""Toba Tek Singh"" (1955) by Saadat Hassan Manto, Urdu poems such as ""Subh-e-Azadi"" (Freedom’s Dawn, 1947) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Bhisham Sahni's ""Tamas"" (1974), Manohar Malgonkar's ""A Bend in the Ganges"" (1965), and Bapsi Sidhwa's ""Ice-Candy Man"" (1988), among others. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Midnight's Children"" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, weaved its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947. ""Freedom at Midnight"" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the"
"1950 on throughout the 20th century, and she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. From Nigeria a number of writers have achieved an international reputation for"
"committee to celebrate the 25th and 40th anniversary of the award). The book went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone. In 1984 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by his accusing her of contributing to his father Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect. The case was settled out of court when Salman Rushdie agreed to remove the"
"Shame (Rushdie novel) Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of ""artificial"" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism, when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus, when England gave up control of ""India""... The book was written in the style of magic realism. It portrays the lives of Iskander Harappa (sometimes assumed to be Zulfikar Ali Bhutto), and General Raza Hyder (sometimes assumed to be General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq), and their relationship. The central theme of the novel is"
"Malgonkar's ""A Bend in the Ganges"" (1965), Chaman Nahal's ""AZADI"" (1975) originally written in English and winner of the Sahitya Akedemi Award in India (1977), and Bapsi Sidhwa's ""Ice-Candy Man"" (1988), among others. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Midnight's Children"" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and The Best of the Booker, wove its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947. ""Freedom at Midnight"" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947. There is a paucity of films related"
"""one of the most significant events in postwar literary history."" Even before the publication of ""The Satanic Verses"", the books of Salman Rushdie had stoked controversy. Rushdie saw his role as a writer ""as including the function of antagonist to the state"". His second book ""Midnight's Children"" angered Indira Gandhi because it seemed to suggest ""that Mrs. Gandhi was responsible for the death of her husband through neglect"". His 1983 ""roman à clef"" ""Shame"" ""took an aim on Pakistan, its political characters, its culture and its religion... [It covered] a central episode in Pakistan's internal life, which portrays as a"
"suffer persecution as authorities recognize their unique power and ability to impact on the masses. Salman Rushdie, an awarded British-Muslim novelist and essayist of Indian origin became a target following the publication his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988). The book was the center of a major controversy in the Islamic world because of what was perceived as an irreverent depiction of Muhammad. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989 and a bounty was offered for Rushdie's death. Rushdi was forced to hide and"
"positive reviews, was a 1988 Booker Prize finalist (losing to Peter Carey's ""Oscar and Lucinda"") and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year. However, major controversy ensued as Muslims accused it of blasphemy and mocking their faith. The outrage among Muslims resulted in a ""fatwā"" calling for Rushdie's death issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989. The result was several failed assassination attempts on Rushdie, who was placed under police protection by the UK government, and attacks on several connected individuals such as translator Hitoshi Igarashi (leading, in Igarashi's case,"
"movement leaders, nationalistic themes and defence-related themes on 15 August. Independence and partition inspired literary and other artistic creations. Such creations mostly describe the human cost of partition, limiting the holiday to a small part of their narrative. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Midnight's Children"" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, wove its narrative around children born at midnight of 14–15 August 1947 with magical abilities. ""Freedom at Midnight"" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947. Few films centre on the"
"Zia-ul-Haq. ""Shame"" won France's ""Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger"" (Best Foreign Book) and was a close runner-up for the Booker Prize. Both these works of postcolonial literature are characterised by a style of magic realism and the immigrant outlook that Rushdie is very conscious of as a member of the Kashmiri diaspora. Rushdie wrote a non-fiction book about Nicaragua in 1987 called ""The Jaguar Smile"". This book has a political focus and is based on his first-hand experiences and research at the scene of Sandinista political experiments. His most controversial work, ""The Satanic Verses"", was published in 1988 (see section"
"was an account of his childhood in the poverty-ridden Dongri area of Mumbai. His latest novel, ""Sufi"", describes the parallel lives of two friends: the author himself and a man called Iqbal Rupani, who rose to become the kingpin of the Mumbai underworld in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1975, his fictional version based on the ""Devil's Bible"", entitled ""The Black Book"", created a nationwide controversy. Even amidst critical acclaim, it was translated into seven languages and voted Book of the Year in Kannada. He earned the nickname the ""Salman Rushdie of India"" after his ""Black Book"" was published. He"
"disputed. He was ""Time"" magazine's Man of the Year in 1979 for his international influence, and Khomeini has been described as the ""virtual face of Shia Islam in Western popular culture"". In 1982, he survived one military coup attempt. Khomeini was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis, his fatwa calling for the murder of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, and for referring to the United States as the ""Great Satan"" and Soviet Union as the ""Lesser Satan."" Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians (including his"
"Saleem Sinai Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel ""Midnight's Children"" by Salman Rushdie. His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland of pre- and post-colonial India, and newly created Pakistan and Bangladesh (East Bengal). He is born at the moment in time when India and Pakistan emerge from British rule and lives during the new tumultuous struggles that engulf the new nations following 15 August 1947. Sinai embodies these physical struggles and rifts during, and serves as a metaphor for, the spiritual, religious, political and intellectual traumas of the young"
"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 "","" an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over ""The Satanic Verses"". Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on 19 June 1947 in Bombay, then British India, into a Kashmiri Muslim family. He is the son of Anis Ahmed"
"His novel ""Luka and the Fire of Life"" was published in November 2010. Earlier that year, he announced that he was writing his memoirs, entitled """", which was published in September 2012. In 2012, Salman Rushdie became one of the first major authors to embrace Booktrack (a company that synchronises ebooks with customised soundtracks), when he published his short story ""In the South"" on the platform. The Year 2015 saw the publication of Rushdie's novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a shift back to his old beloved technique of magic realism. This novel is designed in the structure"
"is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" 1962. Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his Gothic fantasy Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s. Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" (1981). His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989) was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia (now"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing from 1950 on throughout the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writer from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired"
"and Angela Carter's ""The Passion of New Eve"". Joining Jonathan Cape in 1979, she published two Man Booker Prize winners, Salman Rushdie’s ""Midnight's Children"" and Anita Brookner's ""Hotel du Lac"". She was also Julian Barnes' editor for his first four novels, including ""Flaubert's Parrot"". In 1986 she became a founder director of Bloomsbury Publishing, where her list included Booker winners Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje and Nobel literature laureate Nadine Gordimer. In 1997 she was named Editor of the Year at the British Book Awards. She was a founder of the Groucho Club and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In"
"of Allah. This entire matter was a mere footnote to the back-and-forth of religious debate, and was rekindled only when Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, ""The Satanic Verses"", made headline news. The novel contains some fictionalized allusions to Islamic history, which provoked both controversy and outrage. Muslims around the world protested the book's publishing, and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa sentencing Rushdie to death, saying that the book blasphemed Muhammad and his wives. Since William Muir, the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by orientalists. Some orientalists, however, argued against the historic authenticity of these verses on various"
"recognized to promote the good, and what constitutes a good deed. It was adapted into a Hindi film by the same name by Pamela Rooks in 1998. ""Train to Pakistan"" (1990). Grove Press; . Penned by Bhisham Sahni and the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975, ""Tamas"" depicted riots in a small Indian town. The novel was later adapted into a TV series by the same name for Doordarshan, and later a one-off four-hour feature film. ""Tamas"" - Rajkamal Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.. . Salman Rushdie wrote this famous surrealistic fiction full of satirical references to the event of"
"world. As a birthday present, Omar Khayyám Shakil's ""mothers"" allow him to leave Q. He enrolls in a school and is convinced by his tutor (Eduardo Rodriguez) to become a doctor. Over time, he comes in contact with both Iskander Harappa and General Raza Hyder. Rushdie, Salman. ""Shame"". Vintage: London, 1995. Shame (Rushdie novel) Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of ""artificial"" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism, when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus, when"
"these indigenous and non-indigenous cultures on the Indian mind and in the light of Indian independence."" ""Midnight's Children"" has been called ""a watershed in the post-independence development of the Indian English novel"", to the extent that the decade after its 1981 publication has been called ""post-Rushdie"". During that decade, many novels inspired by ""Midnight's Children"" were written by both established and young Indian writers. Rushdie's innovative use of magic realism allowed him to employ the nation-as-family allegory and at the same time confound it with an impossible telepathy among a multitude of children from a multitude of languages, cultures, regions"
"ignite deeper demons within Solanka's life, resulting in the narrowly avoided murder of his wife and child. To further escape, Solanka travels to New York, hopeful he can lose himself and his demons in America, only to find that he is forced to confront himself. Fury (Rushdie novel) Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by postcolonial author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated millionaire from Bombay, is looking for an escape from himself. At first he escapes from his academic life"
"Fury (Rushdie novel) Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by postcolonial author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated millionaire from Bombay, is looking for an escape from himself. At first he escapes from his academic life by immersing himself into a world of miniatures (after becoming enamored with the miniature houses on display at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), eventually creating a puppet called ""Little Brain"" and leaving the academy for television. However, dissatisfaction with the rising popularity of ""Little Brain"" serves to"
"future, which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. In the entirely different genre of Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Immigrant authors played a major role in post-war literature. Doris Lessing (1919) from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), published her first novel ""The Grass is Singing"" in 1950, after immigrating to England. She initially wrote about her African experiences. Lessing soon became a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing right through the century, and won the Nobel prize for literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie (born"
"him famous is his erotic and somewhat fantastical novel ""The White Hotel"" (1981), the story of a woman undergoing psychoanalysis, which has proved very popular in continental Europe and the United States. It was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1981, coming a close second, according to one of the judges, to the winner, Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"". It has also elicited considerable controversy, as some of its passages are taken from Anatoly Kuznetsov's ""Babi Yar"", a novel about the Holocaust. In general, however, Thomas's use of such ""composite material"" (material taken from other sources and imitations of other writers)"
"Knighthood of Salman Rushdie In mid-June 2007 Salman Rushdie, the British Indian novelist and author of the controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"", was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II. This action brought much controversy around the world in many countries with Muslim majority populations. Soon after the news of the knighthood was released protests against the honour were held in Malaysia and in Pakistan where effigies of the writer were publicly burnt. On 19 June 2007, governments in both Pakistan and Iran summoned their British ambassadors to officially protest against the award. While many groups and individuals have"
"the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing inspiration from the Indian independence movement, the black power movement, and the anti-apartheid movement, young British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi activists began a number of anti-racist Asian youth movements in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Bradford Youth Movement in 1977, the Bangladeshi Youth Movement following the murder of Altab Ali in 1978, and the Newham Youth Movement following the murder of Akhtar Ali Baig in 1980. The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel ""The Satanic Verses"" in 1988 caused major controversy. A number of Muslims in Britain condemned the book for blasphemy. On 2 December"
"he referenced everything from mythology to ""one-liners invoking recent popular culture"". The novel provoked great controversy in the Muslim community for what some Muslims believed were blasphemous references. They accused him of misusing freedom of speech. Pakistan banned the book in November 1988. On 12 February 1989, a 10,000-strong protest against Rushdie and the book took place in Islamabad, Pakistan. Six protesters were killed in an attack on the American Cultural Center, and an American Express office was ransacked. As the controversy spread, the importing of the book was banned in India and it was burned in demonstrations in the"
"novel unfold in Tunisia during the tumultuous late 1980s and early 1990s, and examine the political clashes between leftists and Islamists and the forces that brought Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to power. The novel won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction (often called the ""Arab Booker prize""), which was awarded in Abu Dhabi despite the book being banned in the Emirates. Shukri Mabkhout Shukri Mabkhout, also transcribed Choukri Mabkhout, (; born 1962) is a Tunisian academic, critic and novelist. He was born in Tunis, and obtained a PhD in literature from the Arts College of Manouba. He has written"
"prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul, another winner, is ethnically Indian but was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.) The five other authors on the shortlist included one other Indian writer (Amitav Ghosh) and another first-time writer (Steve Toltz). The novel studies the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram, who comes from crushing rural poverty. Adiga explained that ""criticism by writers like Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens of the 19th century helped England and France become better societies"". Shortly after he won the prize, it was"
"is also the founder and chairman of the ""Small Kindness"" charity, which initially assisted famine victims in Africa and now supports thousands of orphans and families in the Balkans, Indonesia, and Iraq. He served as chairman of the charity Muslim Aid from 1985 to 1993. In 1989 following an address by Islam to students at London's Kingston University, where he was asked about the fatwa calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie, author of the novel ""The Satanic Verses"", Islam made a series of comments that appeared to show his support for the fatwa. He released a statement the following"