Sir Salman Rushdie to Speak on Literature and Politics in Bryan Series Feb. 10
Award-winning author Sir Salman Rushdie will give a talk entitled “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World” Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at War Memorial Auditorium. The event is sold out.
Rushdie is author of the international best-sellers Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. The former was recipient of the Man Booker Prize and the latter was deemed sacrilegious by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, who issued a fatwa against him in 1989.
Despite that proclamation and the international controversy that followed, Rushdie went on to produce some of his most compelling work, including The Moor’s Last Sigh and The Ground Beneath Her Feet while living under the constant threat of death.
His most recent novel is The Enchantress of Florence, which was released in the U.S. in May 2008. Queen Elizabeth II conferred a knighthood on him during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in June 2008.
Jan. 26, 2009