| Date: | September 19, 2012 09:00AM -- September 19, 2012 09:30AM |
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| RSVP by: | September 19, 2012 08:45AM |
| Venue: | US |
| Type: | author appearance |
| Website: | http://www.goodreads.com/topic/video_chat/51 |
| Added by: | Margo |
Join us on Wednesday, September 19 at 12pm ET/9am PT for a live video chat with Salman Rushdie.
We'll be discussing his new memoir Joseph Anton, which details the years he spent under the threat of a fatwa. This is your chance to have your questions answered by one of the true giants of contemporary literature.
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About Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a novelist and essayist. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to protests from Muslims in several countries, some of which were violent. Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically. In June 2007, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to literature", which "thrilled and humbled" him. In 2007, he began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University.
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