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Sir Salman Rushdie

One of the Most Celebrated Writers of Our Time, Winner of the Booker Prize

Author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses

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THE LATEST: Sir Salman Rushdie's latest, Luka and the Fire of Life, is a children's novel and a companion to Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Rushdie's memoirs will be published by Random House in 2012.

Sir Salman Rushdie is one of the most celebrated authors of our time -- of any time. A brilliant provocateur, he's penned a handful of classic novels, influenced a generation of writers, and received a Queen's Knighthood for "services to literature." He stands as both a pop culture icon and one of the most thought-provoking proponents for free speech today.

Sir Salman Rushdie's novels, greeted always with anticipation and acclaim, include The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and 2008's The Enchantress of Florence. For his masterwork of magic realism, Midnight's Children, he won the presitigious Booker Prize, and later, the Best of the Booker. An eclectic writer and noted public intellectual, Rushdie has won many of the world's top literary prizes, published a heralded collection of essays, Step Across the Line, written a book on The Wizard of Oz, and served for two years as president of The PEN American Center, the world's oldest human rights organization.

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Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World

In his spellbinding lectures, Sir Salman Rushdie braids together the worlds of literature, politics and philosophy -- a show of intellectual pyrotechnics and deadpan humor that conveys fully the texture of modern life. He speaks about the major themes coursing through his writing, his life and our world: freedom of expression, religion, pop culture, current events at home and abroad, East-West relations, and the role of the artist to shape our understanding of the world.

For those more interested in his writing, he touches on storytelling, the magical realism he made famous, and the unique sensibility of his self-proclaimed "globe-swallowing, capricious books." Few authors are as enrapturing in person as Rushdie is, or as fully embracing of their well-earned place in the spotlight.

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Luka and the Fire of Life

Enchantress of Florence

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"Emory University Saves Rushdie's Digital Data" - The New York Times

"Rushdie planning book about his time in hiding" - The Guardian UK

"Now He's Only Hunted by Cameras" - The New York Times

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