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Salman Rushdie on death: funny and full of life

It’s ordinary death — the bloke with a scythe — that stalks these stories, not an assassin

Evening Standard

Kiran Desai’s first novel in nearly 20 years is shortlisted for the Booker. Last time, she won it

Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Her mother, Anita Desai, was already an accomplished novelist, who had been nominated for the Booker three times. The Inheritance of Loss was hailed as…

The Conversation

The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career

From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak

The Guardian - UK

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Sir Salman Rushdie: I will never be reconciled with injuries from knife attack

He was left blind in one eye from the attack in New York.

Evening Standard

Queen pays tribute to Dame Jilly Cooper at literary festival

Camilla quoted the ‘queen of the bonkbuster’ who has died aged 88.

Evening Standard

László Krasznahorkai: Hungarian author wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025

Several of the author’s books, including ‘Satantango’ and ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, have been adapted into feature films

The Independent UK

Nobel prize in literature 2025 as it happened: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’

Nobel academy cites Hungarian novelist for work that ‘in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’

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Can Xue and László Krasznahorkai are joint favourites to win 2025 Nobel prize in literature

The Chinese and Hungarian writers are tied with odds of 10/1 – while Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also in the running

The Guardian - UK

Cat Stevens shuts down interviewer over his past remarks on Salman Rushdie’s ‘effigy burning’

Stevens writes about Rushdie in his new memoir, ‘Cat On The Road To Findout’

The Independent UK

The five biggest talking points from Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam’s new memoir

The intrepid musician has lived a fruitful life full of flings, faith and controversy

The Independent UK

OPINION - Charlie Kirk's murder demands an urgent reckoning on free speech

Charlie Kirk is dead. He was a champion of free speech and he died speaking freely. He had an extraordinary reach for the young of his generation – my son, a student, and my daughter, a teenager, knew all about him. I knew next to nothing until he was shot…

Evening Standard

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read

From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

The Guardian - UK

India is historical, Bharat is mythical: Aatish Taseer

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

Newslaundry

Trump-Iran latest: Tehran could start ‘making nuke within months’ as work spotted at bombed Fordow site

Trump has repeatedly claimed US strikes had ‘totally obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear facilities

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Witness in a Time of Turmoil by Ian Mayes review – behind the scenes at the Guardian

A lively history of the paper from 1986 to 1995 covers global upheaval, internal conflict and a bold but brilliant redesign

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Sir Salman Rushdie has found 'closure' after knife attack

Sir Salman Rushdie has declared he is "over" the knife attack which almost killed him three years ago - insisting he just wants to move on with his life and stop talking about the horrifying incident which cost him an eye.

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie says he’s ‘over’ vicious knife attack

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Salman Rushdie reveals moment he thinks writers will be ‘screwed’ by AI

Author also said he is ‘over’ the knife attack that left him blind in one eye

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Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh

Author tells Hay festival AI has no sense of humour but when it writes a funny book ‘we’re screwed’

Evening Standard

Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased’ by maximum sentence for attacker

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

Al Jazeera

Attacker who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison

Lawyers for New Jersey man Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

International Business Times

Salman Rushdie Assailant Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.

The Guardian - US

Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison

Hadi Matar was convicted of attempted murder for 2022 attack that left writer blind in his right eye

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie attacker sentenced to 25 years for frenzied stabbing at lecture that left author blind in one eye

A New York jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Hadi Matar of trying to kill the celebrated author

Evening Standard

Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie to be sentenced in New York

A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder and assault in February

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