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    May 5, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Salman Rushdie bequeaths 'Midnight's Children' to film

    In the late 1970s, long before he penned "The Satanic Verses," before he sparked a global uproar between Islamic fundamentalists and free-speech advocates and became a marked man, before he turned into a celebrity man of letters who dates models and starlets, Salman Rushdie was just the failed author of a sci-fi fantasy.
    In the late 1970s, long before he penned "The Satanic Verses," before he sparked a global uproar between Islamic fundamentalists and free-speech advocates and became a marked man, before he turned into a celebrity man of letters who dates models and...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, United Kingdom, Literature, India, Bangladesh

    2. May 3, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press

  2. Film Review: An epic from the mind of Salman Rushdie

    "Magical realism" is one of those descriptive terms that gets thrown around promiscuously: Its scope and characteristics shift significantly depending on who is doing the describing. Still, it's hard to imagine anyone denying that Salman Rushdie's second novel, "Midnight's Children," belongs firmly in that realm. Deepa Mehta's new film version of the book is as close to an "authorized" adaptation as possible, with Rushdie serving as screenwriter, producer and narrator.
    "Magical realism" is one of those descriptive terms that gets thrown around promiscuously: Its scope and characteristics shift significantly depending on who is doing the describing. Still, it's hard to imagine anyone denying that Salman Rushdie's...

    Tags: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), India, Life of Pi (movie), Pakistan

    3. May 3, 2013 |Story| Wrap

  3. How Deepa Mehta Overcame Protests to Film Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'

    Reuters
    May 03 (TheWrap.com) - Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" is a sprawling book that its author has described as a "love letter to India" -- a chronicle of the country's birth and occasionally troubled history as experienced by a boy born at the...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, BBC, Literature, Justice and Rights

    4. May 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Review: The magic sputters in 'Midnight's Children'

    Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning 1980 novel "Midnight's Children" is many things — ambitious, chaotic, fantastical, mythic — but generic it isn't. Which makes the long-awaited film version a real head-scratcher, a pretty but staidly linear epic drained of the novel's larkish, metaphorical sweep, and a collection of multi-generational love stories lacking their originally eccentric, fizzy charm.
    Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning 1980 novel "Midnight's Children" is many things — ambitious, chaotic, fantastical, mythic — but generic it isn't. Which makes the long-awaited film version a real head-scratcher, a pretty but staidly...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Movies, Literature, Entertainment

    5. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Author Salman Rushdie sold 'Midnight's Children' rights for $1

    This post has been corrected. See note below.
    Author/filmmaker Salman Rushdie joined Jon Stewart Tuesday night on "The Daily Show" to talk about the forthcoming film version of his bestselling novel "Midnight's Children."  The 1981 novel won a slew of awards -- including the Man Booker Prize, the...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Truman Capote, Life of Pi (movie), Cinema Industry

    6. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Salman Rushdie sold movie rights to 'Midnight's Children' for $1

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    It took more than 30 years for "Midnight's Children," the Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie, to be made into a movie. But his patience has paid off. The film, for which he wrote the screenplay, opens Friday in selected theaters. In an...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Movies, Literature, Television Industry, Entertainment

    7. Feb 10, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. 'Little Known Facts' about Christine Sneed

    Writing literary fiction is a pursuit for neither the impatient nor the faint of heart. It takes years to learn the craft, then more years to break into the famously insular, heavily guarded world of high-level publishing. It's a slog, in short, punctuated by a steady drumbeat of rejection and self-doubt.
    Writing literary fiction is a pursuit for neither the impatient nor the faint of heart. It takes years to learn the craft, then more years to break into the famously insular, heavily guarded world of high-level publishing. It's a slog, in short,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, George Saunders, The Wall Street Journal, Harrison Ford, Literature

    8. Sep 21, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Versed in Hiding

    For more than two decades after that awful February day in 1989, when Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini asked Muslims everywhere to kill Salman Rushdie for allegedly offending Islam with his novel &ldquo;The Satanic Verses,&rdquo; the author was never sure that he would write a memoir about his life in hiding. In the early years, shuttling from one undisclosed location to another, Rushdie wasn't confident that he would survive long enough to write such a book. Khomeini's fatwa, after all, was no idle threat. The Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, who had won the Nobel Prize for Literature the year before the &ldquo;Satanic Verses&rdquo; controversy, faced similar calls for his own assassination, and for similar reasons; in response, an Islamic fundamentalist stabbed the 82-year-old writer in the neck outside his home in Cairo in 1994. He survived, but barely, sustaining nerve damage so severe that he could write only a few minutes a day for the rest of his life.
    For more than two decades after that awful February day in 1989, when Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini asked Muslims everywhere to kill Salman Rushdie for allegedly offending Islam with his novel “The Satanic Verses,” the author was never sure that...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, United Kingdom, Literature, Nobel Prize Awards

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