Alter | 78 Jahre |
Beruf | Essayist, Romancier, Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 19. Juni 1947 |
Geburtsort | Bombay |
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Beschreibung | Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, CH, kurz Salman Rushdie ist ein britisch-indischer Schriftsteller. Er gehört zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern der englischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Seine Romane wurden in über 40 Sprachen übersetzt. Daneben schreibt Rushdie Kurzgeschichten, Reiseberichte, Essays und journalistische Arbeiten. Rushdies erster großer Erfolg war der Roman Mitternachtskinder, der 1981 mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichnet wurde. Nach dem Erscheinen von Die satanischen Verse 1988 rief Ruhollah Chomeini, der Oberste Führer der Islamischen Republik Iran, mittels einer Fatwa alle Muslime dazu auf, Rushdie zu töten. In der Folge lebte Rushdie lange im Untergrund. 2022 wurde ein Anschlag auf ihn verübt, bei dem er ein Auge verlor. |
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
