Salman Rushdie
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Sobre l'autor
Salman Rushdie was born in India on June 19, 1947. He was raised in Pakistan and educated in England. His novels include Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka mostra'n més and the Fire of Life, and The Golden House. His non-fiction works include Joseph Anton, Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and Step across This Line. He also wrote a collection of short stories entitled East, West. He has received numerous awards including the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel twice, the James Tait Black Prize, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight's Children, and the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: photo by Gregg Chadwick
Sèrie
Obres de Salman Rushdie
The Duniazát 9 exemplars
The Firebird's Nest 3 exemplars
The shelter of the world 2 exemplars
Salman Rushdie at the 92nd Street Y 2 exemplars
Języki prawdy 1 exemplars
[Shame] ; Scham und Schande : Roman 1 exemplars
Midnight's Fiction 1 exemplars
"Introduction" 1 exemplars
අඳුන් දිවි හිනාව 1 exemplars
Miasto Zwycięstwa 1 exemplars
H I ʹ ł ư ð ł £ ʺ ı Ơ ł ł ư ł ł ơ ı £ ư 1 exemplars
Moors Last Sigh by Rushdie, Salman [Paperback] 1 exemplars
A Very Indian Christmas: The Greatest Indian Holiday Stories of All Time (Very Christmas) 1 exemplars
Podcast Allan Gregg: The Fatwa and Islamism 1 exemplars
Salman Rushdie : Interview and news clippings 1 exemplars
Imagina que el cielo no existe 1999 1 exemplars
El valor de la palabra 1 exemplars
TURPI 1 exemplars
Harun Ile Oykuler Denizi 1 exemplars
“ ‘Commonwealth Literature’ Does Not Exist” 1 exemplars
Two Stories 1 exemplars
In the South for Francesco Clemente 1 exemplars
The Safety Net (The Essential Heinrich Boll) 1 exemplars
What Rushdie Says About the British — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Notes on Sloth (in Granta 109 - FREEMAN) 1 exemplars
Toba Tek Singh 1 exemplars
Haroun và biển truyện 1 exemplars
Söngvar Satans 1 exemplars
Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fe, AD 1492) [short fiction] (1991) 1 exemplars
O Caminho das Fadas 1 exemplars
The Old Man in the Piazza 1 exemplars
Nhà Golden 1 exemplars
Những đứa con của nửa đêm 1 exemplars
Nàng phù thủy thành Florence 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (1995) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 1,242 exemplars
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Col·laborador — 345 exemplars
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Col·laborador — 182 exemplars
Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (2009) — Col·laborador — 179 exemplars
Novels II of Samuel Beckett: Volume II of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary… (2006) — Introducció — 164 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Col·laborador — 71 exemplars
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare (2016) — Introducció — 35 exemplars
Soldiers Three and In Black and White (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1993) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 25 exemplars
Fotspår : noveller ur Sveriges radio P1:s serie Författarskap på fötter (2003) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Rushdie, Salman
- Nom oficial
- Rushdie, Ahmed Salman
- Data de naixement
- 1947-06-19
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Engeland
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- India
- Lloc de naixement
- Mumbai, India
- Llocs de residència
- Mumbai, India
Londen, Engeland, GB
New York, New York, Amerika - Educació
- King's College, Cambridge
- Professions
- writer
- Relacions
- Lakshmi, Padma (Echtgenote | gescheiden)
Hitchens, Christopher (Vriend) - Organitzacions
- PEN American Center
- Premis i honors
- German Author of the Year (1989)
Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1992)
Kurt Tucholsky Prize (1992)
Prix Colette (1993)
British Book Award ( [1996])
Mantova Literary Prize (1997) (mostra-les totes 19)
Budapest Grand Prize for Literature (1988)
Order of the British Empire ( [2007])
fatwa by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1989)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Freedom of the City, Mexico City (1999)
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1999)
Aristeion Literary Prize (1996)
Arts Council Writers' Award (1981)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1983)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007)
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism, Harvard University (2007)
PEN/Pinter prize (2014)
H.C. Andersens litteraturpris (2014)
Membres
Converses
Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses a Banned Books (agost 2023)
The Satanic Verses a Book talk (agost 2023)
Found: Books alluded to in "Quichotte" by Salman Rushdie a Name that Book (agost 2023)
Salman Rushdie attacked on stage, New York a Book talk (octubre 2022)
Group Read, September 2022: The Satanic Verses a 1001 Books to read before you die (setembre 2022)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE SEPTEMBER 2015 - LEVY & RUSHDIE a 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (octubre 2015)
1001 Group Read: The Satanic Verses a 1001 Books to read before you die (gener 2011)
**Group Read: Midnight's Children General Thread** a 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (abril 2010)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (3)
Favourite Books (2)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Witchy Fiction (1)
Didactic Fiction (1)
Writers at Risk (1)
Best Satire (1)
Devilish Books (1)
SFFCat 2015 (1)
Revolutions (1)
1990s (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Folio Society (1)
1960s (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Franklit (1)
hopes (2)
Asia (2)
Yet another list (2)
AP Lit (2)
Indian Diaspora (1)
Magic Realism (5)
Unread books (4)
All Things India (3)
A Novel Cure (3)
1980s (2)
BBC Top Books (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
Shaking a Leg (1)
Elegant Prose (1)
Read These Too (1)
Best First Lines (1)
Booker Prize (7)
Central America (1)
Books I Loved (1)
2022 (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 97
- També de
- 43
- Membres
- 61,319
- Popularitat
- #233
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 1,073
- ISBN
- 1,242
- Llengües
- 37
- Preferit
- 308
La nueva novela de Rushdie es un thriller moderno enmarcado en el contexto político, social y cultural de la actual Norteamérica. A través de la literatura, el cine y la cultura pop,La decadencia de Nerón Goldenpresenta un elenco de personajes únicos, incluido un joven norteamericano aspirante a director de cine que se ve involucrado en los oscuros asuntos de la familia Golden, llena de secretos y condenada a la tragedia, en un proceso que le llevará a madurar como hombre y a conocer sus propios límites. En última instancia, la decadencia de su patriarca, Nerón Golden, no es sino espejo de la llegada de Donald Trump al poder y de los cambios profundos en la sociedad estadounidense.
Ruhsdie envuelve así su historia con un repaso por los últimos ocho años de la vida en Estados Unidos: el auge del Tea Party y el nuevo conservadurismo, el feminismo y las nuevas políticas de género, la reacción contra la corrección política y, claro, el surgimiento de un villano maleducado y ambicioso, narcisista, experto en manipular los medios de comunicación, maquillado como un deportista y de pelo oxigenado: Donald Trump.… (més)