Salman Rushdie
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A book its author ‘would much rather not have needed to write’ ranges far beyond his attempted murder and recovery
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Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?Podcast
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Author, who was stabbed at a literary event last year, gets lifetime disturbing the peace award and standing ovation
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Alleged attacker Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, following incident in Chautauqua, New York, that left Rushdie blind in one eye
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Booker prize-winning author said that if ‘only women can write about women and straight people about straight people’ then it signals the ‘death of art’
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The author describes the book, subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, as ‘a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art’
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Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday
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Speaking in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Rushdie says US Republicans are moving away from democratic values including free speech
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Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language
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Writer speaks about his physical and mental health as well as his thoughts on his attempted murderer
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The novelist on inheriting her mother’s ferocity, gun violence in the US and the attack on her husband, Salman Rushdie, last year
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Author tells Hay literary festival he needs to ‘get past’ the knife attack he suffered before writing anything else
Meet the modern-day censors, wielding their purse-strings over artists and their work