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Nobel panel to announce winner of literature prize

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday. While the recipient is notoriously unpredictable, one clear contender is Sir Salman Rushdie, the India-born writer and free-speech ...

06 Oct 2022 at 10:46

Football

Amnesty International raise new Saudi concerns – one year on from Newcastle deal

Human rights campaigners have renewed their accusations of “sportswashing” and calls for more stringent Premier League rules as Newcastle prepare to mark a year under Saudi-backed ownership. Amanda Staveley’s consortium, in which Saudi ...

05 Oct 2022 at 19:38

Entertainment

Rushdie ‘has long defended freedom of artistic expression’ – Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood has said Sir Salman Rushdie “never missed an opportunity to speak out on behalf of the principles he had been embodying all his writing life” adding that “freedom of expression was foremost among these”. The Canadian ...

15 Aug 2022 at 10:19

Sir Salman Rushdie’s feisty sense of humour remains intact, family says

Sir Salman Rushdie suffered severe, life-changing injuries but his “usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact”, his family has said. The author, 75, has a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye after he ...

14 Aug 2022 at 19:42

Sunak: Rushdie attack a ‘wake-up call’ to the West over Iran threat

Tory leadership contender Rishi Sunak has said the stabbing of Sir Salman Rushdie should be a “wake-up call” for the West about the threat which Iran still poses. In the aftermath of the attack on the 75-year-old author, the ...

14 Aug 2022 at 00:43

Sir Salman Rushdie off ventilator and talking following stabbing in US

Sir Salman Rushdie has been taken off his ventilator and is talking as he recovers from being stabbed in the US. British-American writer Aatish Taseer said, in a since-deleted tweet, that the 75-year-old was “off the ...

14 Aug 2022 at 13:27

Police investigating ‘online threat’ made to JK Rowling following Rushdie tweet

Police said they are investigating a report of an “online threat” made to JK Rowling after she tweeted her reaction to the stabbing of Sir Salman Rushdie. The Harry Potter author, 57, shared screenshots of a message ...

14 Aug 2022 at 12:08

Salman Rushdie: Man facing US court accused of stabbing author

The man who allegedly stabbed Sir Salman Rushdie is due to appear in court in the US. A grand jury has indicted Hadi Matar, who allegedly attacked 75-year-old Sir Salman as the renowned author prepared to give a ...

18 Aug 2022 at 17:22

World

Rushdie stabbing suspect indicted and due to appear in court

A grand jury has indicted the man suspected of stabbing Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York, county prosecutors have said. Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, ...

18 Aug 2022 at 16:57

Downing St condemns ‘ludicrous’ Iranian suggestion Rushdie to blame for attack

Downing Street has said it is “ludicrous” to suggest that Sir Salman Rushdie might bear any responsibility for the attack on him. An Iranian government official on Monday denied that Tehran was involved in the ...

15 Aug 2022 at 16:56

World

Judge denies bail for man accused of attacking Sir Salman Rushdie

A judge has refused to grant bail to the man accused of trying to kill Sir Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York. Hadi Matar, 24, appeared in a western New York ...

18 Aug 2022 at 20:43

Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon and Louise Welsh send message to Rushdie from book festival

Nicola Sturgeon and best-selling author Louise Welsh have taken a moment during the Edinburgh International Book Festival to send a message of solidarity to Sir Salman Rushdie after he was attacked in the ...

15 Aug 2022 at 22:50

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