Salman Rushdie

Her literary friends included Lorna Sage and Salman Rushdie , a fellow campaigner against the Falklands War. Through her contributions to the London Review of Books she formed a friendship with Susannah Clapp , an...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...

She has named a number of authors with impact on her teenage years, including Kazuo Ishiguro , Anita Desai , and Peter Carey. She has expressed particular affinity for Salman Rushdie 's Midnight's Children...

Auberon Waugh 's review of the book was headed: If only nasty Laura had kept her clothes on . . . .Elaine Feinstein , reviewing it along with Salman Rushdie 's Midnight's Children...

Salman Rushdie called this a magnificent book that brilliantly portrayed the world of male friendship in order to demonstrate how this, too, is a part of the process by which women are excluded from power...

Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...

In March 1977 FW was one of a group of writers who travelled in a cultural delegation to Israel. She chaired the Booker Prize panel of judges in 1983, and on her watch the...

AF 's public work continued after her second marriage. She chaired the Crime Writers' Association , and became in 1984 a founding trustee of the Authors' Foundation . When she retired as a trustee she...

As to international politics, Pinter spoke out against the forcible, USA-backed ousting of President Salvador Allende of Chile in September 1973. Like his second wife, he was a strong supporter of PEN International . The...

David Jays , in an article confessing his preference for the current lionesses to the lions among British novelists—a preference, that is, for ASB , Zadie Smith , A. L. Kennedy , Sarah Waters ...

When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT was among them (along with Pat Barker , Martin Amis , Salman Rushdie ...

The Imam rules and tyrannizes over an imaginary island. The rebellious heroine, Bint Allah (which means daughter of God), appears to have been illegitimately fathered by the Imam, and while it seems appropriate to...

STW 's short stories were, and continue to be, highly praised by critics and enjoyed by readers. They are very numerous, as well as very diverse in subject matter. Often featuring a blend of realism...

Later volumes of stories by AC were Black Venus's Tale, with woodcuts by Philip Sutton (1980), and Black Venus (1985). American Ghosts and Old World Wonders was published posthumously in 1993. Burning Your Boats...

In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness. Her two...