Salman Rushdie

BH attended the Adelaide Festival in Australia, in company with famous names such as Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie ; she found that many festival-goers did not know of her or her books, but...

First among the acknowledgements stands the name of AW 's forebear May Poole , who lived under slavery and reportedly died at the age of a hundred and twenty-five. The volume's strong element of...

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...

SM and Lisa Appignanesi together edited The Rushdie File, a collection of articles, interviews, and other comment on Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses and the fatwa declared against its author by Islamic clerics.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...