Tag: Salman Rushdie

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:03 UTC

  Rushdie's book back to best-selling mode after attack

  

  Sales of Salman Rushdie's 1988 The Satanic Verses have skyrocketed after its author was stabbed Friday in New York State by a young American of Lebanese origin, who has been charged with attempted murder.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:30 UTC

  Rushdie recovering slowly; repercussions jump worldwide

  

  Author Salman Rushdie's son Zafar Sunday in a statement Sunday said in a statement Sunday that his father was still in critical condition after Friday's stabbing.

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 21:08 UTC

  “Satanic Verses” author stabbed before a lecture in NY

  

  Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, on whose head there has been a bounty since the 1980s for his novel The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed Friday during a conference in New York State.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:19 UTC

  Germany's greatest post WWII writer and Nobel Prize winner dies at 87

  

  German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer's duty was to be at the frontline of moral and political debate.