Salman Rushdie - Great Art about 9/11?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/18/A_Conversation_with_Salman_Rushdie

Bestselling Author Salman Rushdie discusses what he feels is a lack of great literature or other creative works about September 11, 2001.

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Born in Mumbai, India, Salman Rushdie is an outspoken novelist. After a decade working as an ad copywriter, Rushdie had a breakthrough with the publication of his second book, Midnight's Children. The book received critical acclaim and was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981.

His latest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, about a bewitching Moghul princess and her Florentine exploits with such historical characters as Machiavelli, is due out this June - City Arts & Lectures

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize.Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between the Eastern and Western worlds.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries, some of which were violent. Faced with death threats and a fatwā (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically.

In June 2007, Rushdie was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to literature. In 2007, he began a five-year term as distinguished writer in residence at Emory University.

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[bnbalenda]

I think he's telling the truth and some people can't stand it. The truth may be offensive, but it does not make it less true.

[ChildeRolandofGilead]

You do realize those are the feelings of a fictional character in a novel, yes?

For example, in college I wrote a short story about a serial killer. In the story, the killer describes all women as playthings and slabs of meat. That doesn't mean *I* think women are meat, even though I wrote it. It means the *character* I created thinks of women as meat.

You don't seem to understand novels, sir. If an author writes a racist character, it doesn't mean the author is racist.

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[silver4883]

salman is a great man and a great indian

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@123tan123 explain please

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@fromwilliams explain,please

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@fromwillams explain....

[jjungleee]

back then. That was a few years ago.

Any way media causes more hype than we need as it is.

That old saying OPINIONS ARE LIKE ASSHOLES , EVERY ONE HAS GOT ONE.

[jjungleee]

I have seen enough vids and read books of his...the dude is funny.

My whole perception about him has changed from what I used to, he is a story teller.Some will get offended while others will not. Check out candidates@google videos of this racist,sell-out,funny,confusin­g,historian,stupid at times maybe all the names under the sun and some more... He aint got a gun pointing at anyone,he has a pen. Yes he did piss half the world off and I was one of those back in the days, didn't read the book ba

[cnmaster01]

this entire comment board is the stupidest thing i've ever seen

[xxxwhatsupyaxxx]

@TurkishNationalism

rushdie is so clever and you cant even read, amcik

[kroikye]

blueprinth for truth, best work on 9/11 jet in my opinion