"Shalimar the Clown Shalimar the Clown is a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel took Rushdie four years to write, and was initially published on 6 September 2005 by Jonathan Cape. ""Shalimar the Clown"" derives its name from Shalimar Gardens, in the vicinity of Srinagar. Srinagar is one of several Mughal Gardens, which were laid out in several parts of undivided India when the Mughals reigned over the subcontinent. Shalimar is also the name of one of the characters featured in the novel. ""Shalimar the Clown"" won the 2005 Vodafone Crossword Book Award and was one of the finalists"
"2005 novel ""Shalimar the Clown"" received, in India, the prestigious Hutch Crossword Book Award, and was, in the UK, a finalist for the Whitbread Book Awards. It was shortlisted for the 2007 International Dublin Literary Award. In his 2002 non-fiction collection ""Step Across This Line"", he professes his admiration for the Italian writer Italo Calvino and the American writer Thomas Pynchon, among others. His early influences included Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Lewis Carroll, Günter Grass, and James Joyce. Rushdie was a personal friend of Angela Carter's and praised her highly in the foreword of her collection ""Burning your Boats""."
"the design and creation of the Rothko Chapel in Houston, and the lives of five characters as they enter the chapel over the course of four decades. The piece premiered in 2017 at Houston Grand Opera. ""Shalimar the Clown"", based on the 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie, was composed by Jack Perla with a libretto by Rajiv Joseph, and brought to OF:NW in 2015. The libretto tells a love story set in a rural Kashmiri village. When an American ambassador arrives, the love is torn apart, and the titular character seeks revenge. The piece premiered in 2016 at the Opera"
"""Drama Dolls"" ""I Heart Superhero Kid"" ""Moo Moo the Serial Killer Cat"" Jason Tanamor Jason Tanamor (born April 25, 1975) is an American author, writer, and entertainment interviewer. He also works as a contract specialist for the United States Department of Defense. His novels range from dark in nature to satirical and from young adult to children's. His last two novels, ""Anonymous"" and ""Drama Dolls"", have received critical acclaim from major publications such as Publishers Weekly – who called him a ""promising writer with lots of potential"" and compared him to Chuck Palahniuk and Charles Bukowski – and Audio Book"
"Jason Tanamor Jason Tanamor (born April 25, 1975) is an American author, writer, and entertainment interviewer. He also works as a contract specialist for the United States Department of Defense. His novels range from dark in nature to satirical and from young adult to children's. His last two novels, ""Anonymous"" and ""Drama Dolls"", have received critical acclaim from major publications such as Publishers Weekly – who called him a ""promising writer with lots of potential"" and compared him to Chuck Palahniuk and Charles Bukowski – and Audio Book Reviewer. Tanamor is from the Quad-Cities (Iowa/Illinois) and is the middle child"
"Raymond Khoury Raymond Khoury (Arabic: ريمون خوري) (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a screenwriter and novelist, best known as the author of the 2006 ""New York Times"" Bestseller ""The Last Templar"". Raymond Khoury was born in Lebanon but spent his teenage years in Rye, New York, where his family moved in 1975 to escape the Lebanese Civil War. Khoury returned to Lebanon after his graduation from Rye Country Day high school to attend the American University of Beirut and study architecture. During his time as a student, he also illustrated several children's books for the Oxford University Press Middle East"
"Best Novel for ""Survivor"" and for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for ""Lullaby"" in 2002 and for ""Haunted"" in 2005. Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel ""Fight Club"", which also was made into a popular film of the same name. Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington, the son of Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk. He has French and Ukrainian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was Ukrainian and migrated to New York"
"such as Victor Jara and Steve Biko in his 1989 song ""Lennon Street"". Norwegian songwriter and singer Åge Aleksandersen mentioned Palach's name in his 1984 song ""Va det du Jesus"". Jan Palach is named without context in the 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, referring to the 1992 L.A. Riots. A sequence of poems exploring the implications of Palach's death called ""One Match"" by the poet Sheila Hamilton were published in issue 51 of the Dorset-based poetry serial, ""Tears in the Fence"" (ed. David Caddy) in 2010. A three-part 2013 Czech-Polish television show ""Burning Bush"", directed by Agnieszka"
"Lullaby (Palahniuk novel) Lullaby is a horror-satire novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2002. It won the 2003 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2002. ""Lullaby"" is the story of Carl Streator, a newspaper reporter who has been assigned to write articles on a series of cases of sudden infant death syndrome, from which his own child had died. Carl discovers that his wife and child had died immediately after he read them a ""culling song"", or African chant, from a book entitled ""Poems and Rhymes Around"
"American rock musician Brendan Benson in the song ""Biggest Fan"" from The Alternative to Love Joni Mitchell's song Dancin' Clown, from 1988's Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm, contains the phrase. An album note for the song on jonimitchell.com lists several artists as the ""Cherchez la femme chorus"". The phrase appears in the novel ""Bluebeard"" (1987) by Kurt Vonnegut. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Shalimar the Clown"" (2005) uses the phrase in its final section, Kashmira. The 1987 James Ellroy novel ""The Black Dahlia"" features the line as a motif throughout, first spoken by Officer Lee Blanchard to the main detective, Dwight ""Bucky"""
"""Monologues for Actors of Color: Women"", both edited by Roberta Uno and published by Routledge in 2016. References: Ismail Khalidi (writer) Ismail Khalidi (; born 1982) is a Palestinian American playwright, poet, director and actor, best known for the plays ""Tennis in Nablus"" (2010) and ""Truth Serum Blues"" (2005). ""Tennis in Nablus"" received two graduate student Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 while he was still at NYU, the ""Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award"" and the ""Quest for Peace Playwriting Award."" Khalidi's writing tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism"
"Shalimar (1978 film) Shalimar (Hindi : शालीमार) is a 1978 Bollywood film. The movie starred Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Shammi Kapoor, Prem Nath and Aruna Irani. English actor Sir Rex Harrison and American actors John Saxon and Sylvia Miles appear in supporting roles in their first and only Bollywood film. Jayamalini does a dance number in the film. This was the last time that Mohammed Rafi's voice was picturized on Shammi Kapoor. Its English version is known as ""Raiders of the Sacred Stone"". Rex Harrison's voice was dubbed by Kader Khan.The plot is inspired from the novel 'The vulture is a"
"2006. It is a thriller novel about the relations between the US and the Arab world. But unlike other thriller novelists, such as Tom Clancy, this novel is written from the Arabs' point of view, specifically the Palestinians. Carl Hamilton, vice-admiral and former chief of Säpo (the Swedish Security Service), has (after escaping from Swedish jail, convicted of murder) for ten years been living in the United States. Here he lives under false name (Hamlon) with American citizenship, in La Jolla, San Diego, keeping his body in shape and getting psychological help. But then on a spring day his old"
"Ismail Khalidi (writer) Ismail Khalidi (; born 1982) is a Palestinian American playwright, poet, director and actor, best known for the plays ""Tennis in Nablus"" (2010) and ""Truth Serum Blues"" (2005). ""Tennis in Nablus"" received two graduate student Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 while he was still at NYU, the ""Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award"" and the ""Quest for Peace Playwriting Award."" Khalidi's writing tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism and war. Khalidi was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1982 in the wake of the Israeli invasion but"
"Orhan Pamuk Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the author of novels including ""Silent House"", ""The White Castle"", ""The Black Book"", ""The New Life"", ""My Name Is Red"", ""Snow"", ""The Museum of Innocence"", and ""A Strangeness in My Mind"". He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where"
"is the first dramatisation of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks on record. Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla is an American writer. He is most famous for his novel ""Ode to Lata"" published in 2002, that was adapted to a film in 2008 under the title ""The Ode"". He has also published the novel ""The Two Krishnas"" in 2011, which was released as ""The Exiles"" in India. Dhalla's great-grandparents were Ismailis who immigrated to Kenya from India. An only child, he was mostly raised by his mother's parents in Mombasa. He decided that he wanted to be a writer when"
"Shreekumar Varma Shreekumar Varma is an Indian author, playwright, newspaper columnist and poet, known for the novels ""Lament of Mohini"" (Penguin, 2000), ""Maria's Room"" (Harper Collins, 2010), ""Devil's Garden: Tales Of Pappudom"" (Puffin, 2006), ""The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu"" (Puffin, 2009) and the historical book for children, ""Pazhassi Raja: The Royal Rebel"" (Macmillan, 1997). Varma was born in 1955 in Satelmond Palace, Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram. His parents left Kerala and settled down in Madras when he was four. He studied in the Good Shepherd Convent, the Madras Christian College High School and the Madras Christian College, from where he completed his"
"Graham Moore (writer) Graham Moore (born October 18, 1981) is an American screenwriter and author known for his 2010 novel ""The Sherlockian"", as well as his screenplay for the historical film ""The Imitation Game"", which topped the 2011 Black List for screenplays and won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (awarded February 2015). Moore was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised on the city's north side — ""the son of two lawyers who divorced and then married two other lawyers."" Moore's father is an insurance defense attorney and his mother, Susan Sher (née Steiner), works for the University"
"2007, Khoury wrote his third novel titled ""The Sign"". This was published in the United States on May 19, 2009 as both a traditional hardcover book, and as an electronic book. ""The Templar Salvation"", a sequel to ""The Last Templar"", was published in 2010. Khoury divides his time between Beirut, London and Dubai. Raymond Khoury Raymond Khoury (Arabic: ريمون خوري) (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a screenwriter and novelist, best known as the author of the 2006 ""New York Times"" Bestseller ""The Last Templar"". Raymond Khoury was born in Lebanon but spent his teenage years in Rye, New York, where"
"trilogy). The Undersea Kingdom. (Book two of the trilogy). Timeri N. Murari Timeri Murari is an Indian novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of fourteen published novels, including best-sellers ""The Taliban Cricket Club"" (2012) and ""Taj"" (2007), and has written extensively for Indian and international newspapers including ""The Guardian"". He has also written the screenplay of the award-winning Hindi movie ""Daayraa"" (1997), which was voted one of the ten best films of 1997 by ""Time"" magazine. Murari was born in Madras, India and studied at Bishop Cottons School, Bangalore. He left India for the UK when he"
"Sarah Schulman Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter and AIDS historian. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at College of Staten Island (CSI) and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities. Schulman was born on July 28, 1958 in New York City. She attended Hunter College High School, and attended the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1978 but did not graduate. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Empire State College. Schulman's third novel, ""After Delores,"" received a positive review in the ""New York"
"C. M. Taylor C. M. Taylor (born 1972) is the pen name of Craig Taylor, an English novelist, screenwriter and lecturer. Born in Birmingham in 1972, C. M. Taylor has lived in West Yorkshire, Suffolk, Cambridge, Edinburgh, India, Spain and Brussels. He is married with two daughters and currently lives in Oxford. C. M. Taylor has ghostwritten for an internationally best-selling author, and contributed material to Plan B's ""The Ballad of Belmarsh"" album. His journalism has appeared widely, including in ""The Guardian"" and ""The Daily Telegraph"". Taylor's novel ""Cloven"" is a dark treatment of the BSE epidemic in Britain in"
"Lullaby (Slimani novel) Lullaby (known as The Perfect Nanny in the United States; original French title Chanson douce) is a 2016 novel by French author Leïla Slimani. ""Lullaby"" is Slimani's second novel, and the first to be translated into English. By January 2018 it had been translated into 18 languages, with intentions for a further 17.< Originally titled ""Chanson douce"", it was translated as ""Lullaby"" for the UK and ""The Perfect Nanny""' in the USA. It sold 600,000 copies in France in its first year of publication. The book deals with the murder of two children by their nanny. It"
"Craig Johnson (author) Craig Allen Johnson (born January 16, 1961) is an American author who writes mystery novels. He is best known for his Sheriff Walt Longmire novel series. The books are set in northwest Wyoming where Longmire is sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka. The series debuted in 2004 and as of September 2018, Johnson has written fourteen novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories featuring Longmire. Some of the novels have been on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. In 2012, Warner Horizon adapted the novels for a television series. Johnson lives on a"
"Appeal ordered that Krekar pay 130,000 kroner in damages compensation to each of the three Kurds he threatened, and to serve two years and ten months in prison, less the 255 days he was in custody. Mariwan Halabjaee Mariwan Halabjaee or Mariwan Halabjayi (, """") also referred to as Salman Rushdie of Iraqi Kurdistan (born 1 August 1963) is the Iraqi Kurdish writer, public speaker, and human rights activist. He is the author of sixteen books and producer of over ninety documentaries, covering topics on theology, psychology, and human rights. He is the author of the book ""Sex, Sharia and"
"Saleem Dabbour Saleem Dabbour () (born 18 September 1970), is a Palestinian novelist, scenarist, director, producer, and film critic. Dabbour became popular for his ""straight-forward and daring work"" as a writer in ""Shu fi Ma fi"" (2006), ""Kaffa"" (2007) and ""Shubak al-Ankabout"" (2009). Born in Jalazone, Palestine in 1970, Dabbour acquired Dutch citizenship in 1998 after a royal decision by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and since then, detains two citizenships (Dutch and Palestinian). He holds a BA degree in English Literature from Bir Zeit University and a postgraduate diploma in Cultural Studies from the Netherlands. Saleem Dabbour published his"
"Shahida Rahman Shahidun Nessa Rahman (; née Karim ; born 14 December 1971), commonly known by her pseudonym Shahida Rahman, is an award-winning English author, writer and publisher. She is best known as the author of ""Lascar"". Rahman was born in Mill Road Maternity Hospital, Mill Road, Cambridge, and brought up in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. She is of Bangladeshi descent and both her parents are from Fenchuganj, Sylhet Division. Her late father, Abdul Karim. was orphaned at a young age and moved to Cambridge from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1957 and her mother, Fultera Banoo Karim, arrived in 1963."
"Daniel Kluger Daniel (Daniil) Kluger, (born October 8, 1951) is an Israeli writer in science fiction and detective genres. He writes in Russian language. Born in the former Soviet Union (Ukraine). Graduated from Simferopol State University as physicist. Began to publish his works in the 1970s. Author of books The Cruel Sun («Жестокое солнце», изд.""Таврия"", 1989), The Silent Guest («Молчаливый гость», «Текст», 1991), The Trap for the Sleuth («Западня для сыщика», «Искатель», 1998), Those Who Crossed the River («Перешедшие реку», ХАМА, 2000), several detective novels - Death in Caesarea («»), Unpredicted Murder («Непредсказанное убийство») etc., as well as an essay"
"Glamorama Glamorama is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. ""Glamorama"" is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism. ""Time"" describes the novel as ""a screed against models and celebrity."" Ellis wanted to write a Stephen King-style ghost story novel, which would eventually become ""Lunar Park""; finding it difficult at the time, he began work on the other novel which he had in mind. This was a Robert Ludlum-style thriller, with the intention of using one of his own vapid characters who lack insight as the narrator. The novel is a satire of modern"
"International Red Cross Society of India - Press Institute of India Award for Best Reporting from Conflict Zones, and the inaugural The Hindu Fiction Award, and also the Karadi Tales and Deccan Herald short story contests and the Prakriti Foundation poetry competition. Shreekumar Varma Shreekumar Varma is an Indian author, playwright, newspaper columnist and poet, known for the novels ""Lament of Mohini"" (Penguin, 2000), ""Maria's Room"" (Harper Collins, 2010), ""Devil's Garden: Tales Of Pappudom"" (Puffin, 2006), ""The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu"" (Puffin, 2009) and the historical book for children, ""Pazhassi Raja: The Royal Rebel"" (Macmillan, 1997). Varma was born in"
"Seth Grahame-Smith Seth Grahame-Smith (born Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4, 1976) is an American novelist, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of ""The New York Times"" best-selling novels ""Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"" and ""Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter"", both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer and executive producer of ""The Hard Times of RJ Berger"", a scripted television comedy appearing on MTV. In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions, Grahame-Smith is currently developing a number of projects for television and film."
"Sharat Kumar Sharat Kumar (born 29 July 1937 in Meerut, India) is an Indian writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his novels ""Orange Moon"" (2002, English edition) and ""Lal Kothi Alvida"" (""Farewell Red Mansion"") (2004, Hindi, 2009, English). The latter was made into a Hindi television program of the same name, produced by Balraj Sahni Productions and starring Sahni's son Parikshat Sahni. Kumar was the original screenwriter for the TV series, adapting his own novel. Kumar graduated from the National Defence Academy in 1956 and served as an officer in the Indian Navy until 1966."
"for the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards. The novel is based partly in a small town in the region of Kashmir. The town itself is imaginary, but it is located in an accurate geographic location not far from Srinagar. The title refers to a character in the story, a Kashmiri villager named Shalimar, who performs a tightrope act for the amusement of the other villagers. The central character, India, is the illegitimate child of a former United States ambassador to India, Maximilian Ophuls. Although a number of narratives and incidents in the novel revolve around Kashmir, the novel opens in Los"