Set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin, it is the first major work that Rushdie produced after the The Satanic Verses affair, and thus is referential to that circumstance in many ways, especially the isolation of the narrator, as well as the shadow of death that seems constantly to hang over him.

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

More recently they have included authors Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie, politician Charles Clarke, journalist Johann Hari, the original members of the Grammy Award-winning a cappella group King's Singers, folk musician John Spiers and comedian David Baddiel.

* During the 2006 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah declared in a speech aired on Al-Manar TV and Al-Jazeera TV that: " If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini's fatwā against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have dared to do so.

Indian authors like Chaman Nahal, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Hanif Kureishi, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai have contributed to the category.

Other authors who have used Hinglish extensively in their novels are Salman Rushdie and Upamanyu Chatterjee.

Although Rushdie himself has never been attacked as a result of the book's creation, Islamic extremists have attacked several connected individuals such as translator Hitoshi Igarashi ( leading to, in Igarashi's case, death ).

Rushdie has never been physically harmed for the book, but others associated with it have suffered violent attacks.

Interview subjects have included Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, and Norman Mailer.

Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Arvind Adiga have won the prestigious Man Booker Prize, with Salman Rushdie going on to win the Booker of Bookers.

Where else have you heard these words about Salman Khan or Salman Rushdie?

Again, the invitation to serve as guest director is very prestigious, evidenced by the renown of those who have accepted the post ; these include Errol Morris, Peter Bogdanovich, Bertrand Tavernier, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Peter Sellars, Stephen Sondheim, Buck Henry, and Michael Ondaatje.

Salman Rushdie and Arthur Miller had been favored to receive the Prize, but a committee member was later quoted as saying that they would have been " too predictable, too popular.

Although many have stated that the novel has a similar feel to the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Salman Rushdie, and the book is in part a paean to New York City in the same way that Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is a tribute to Garcia Marquez's Colombia, Helprin himself is on record ( in a letter to Keith Morgan, and elsewhere ) as stating that he " detests " magical realism, because " it is exhibitionistic, forced, self-conscious, and almost devoid of emotional content.

In the recent past, these have included John Banville, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Salman Rushdie, Irvine Welsh, William Styron and Nadine Gordimer.

Picador authors have included Jonathan Franzen, Michael Chabon, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon, Pankaj Mishra, Bret Easton Ellis and Salman Rushdie.

2008 ’ s speakers included such diverse and thought-provoking individuals as Sir Salman Rushdie, Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond, and world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt.

Several non-Jewish authors share Wiesel's concerns about God's nature, including Salman Rushdie ( The Satanic Verses, Shalimar the Clown ) and Anne Provoost ( In the Shadow of the Ark ):

Fletcher wrote " It is perhaps a relevant irony that some of the major expressions of hostility toward Rushdie came from those about whom and ( in some sense ) for whom he wrote.

Rushdie also deliberately miscredits some classic rock songs, such as The Rolling Stones ' "( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction ", which he credits to John Lennon, or Roy Orbison's " Pretty Woman " which he credits to The Kinks.

Rushdie dedicated this book to his son, from whom he was separated for some time.

After Stevens ' comment which some interpreted as calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, 10, 000 Maniacs lead singer Natalie Merchant had " Peace Train " removed from all copies of the album in the U. S.

Many creative artists spent some of their career as copywriters before becoming famous for other things, including Peter Carey, Dorothy L. Sayers, Eric Ambler, Joseph Heller, Terry Gilliam, William S. Burroughs, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Lawrence Kasdan, Fay Weldon, Philip Kerr and Shigesato Itoi.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 pronounced a death sentence on Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses.

Gilliam later spoke to Salman Rushdie about defining experiences in the 1960s that would set the foundations for his views on the world, later influencing his art and career:

** Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $ 3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie, in a 1985 essay on the dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms ' Hobson-Jobson ', ends with this:

Director Deepa Mehta is collaborating with Rushdie on a new version of the story, the forthcoming film Midnight's Children.

In 2004 the New York City Opera premiered his opera Haroun and the Sea of Stories based on the novel by Salman Rushdie, with a libretto by James Fenton.

Of the books he has written, most famous are a " learned critique " of the Salman Rushdie novel Satanic Verses, a book in support of Ferdowsi ( and against attacks by Ahmad Shamlou ), and a book on Zaynab bint Ali's role in and after Aashurah.

Originally, the guests on these segments were NPR personalities and reporters, but the pool of guests later expanded to include mostly celebrity guests, ranging from former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who was asked questions on the history of Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine, to author Salman Rushdie who was asked about the history of Pez candy.

It happened to be the same day that a fatwa was announced on Salman Rushdie, a close friend of Chatwin's who attended the service.

MIT does, however, on rare occasions award honorary professorships ; Winston Churchill was so honored in 1949 and Salman Rushdie in 1993.

As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters.

In mid-February 1989, following a violent riot against the book in Pakistan, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran and a Shi ' a Muslim scholar, issued a fatwa calling on all good Muslims to kill Rushdie and his publishers, or to point him out to those who can kill him if they cannot themselves.

Although the British Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher gave Rushdie round-the-clock police protection, many politicians on both sides were hostile to the author.

Meanwhile the Commission for Racial Equality and a liberal think tank, the Policy Studies Institute held seminars on the Rushdie affair.

* Notes on Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

* Salman Rushdie Reads from " The Satanic Verses " on Youtube

Resigned as a protest to Tom Leykis crushing of listener donated Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam records, following Stevens call for fatwa on Salman Rushdie.

Bakri has reaffirmed the fatwa on Salman Rushdie, saying from Lebanon, " Rushdie will continue living his life in hiding.

Rushdie also stated that Ormus Cama was loosely based on Freddie Mercury, who was also a famous Parsi rock star.