British-American novelist Salman Rushdie will publish his first major work of fiction since the brutal stabbing that blinded ...

Rushdie’s fiction, notably the Booker Prize-winning “Midnight’s Children,” has brought him his greatest acclaim. His other ...

Salman Rushdie set to publish his first book since his stabbing, The Eleventh Hour. It will feature three novellas and two ...

The Eleventh Hour', which comprises a trio of novellas and two stories, marks the author's return to fiction after an onstage ...

Attacks against Rushdie have been feared since the late 1980s after his novel The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Eleventh Hour follows two ...

Sir Salman says his upcoming book, a collection of stories, will explore themes mortality, peace, anger and farewells.

On 6 October 1988, Salman Haider, India’s deputy high commissioner in London and a friend of Salman Rushdie, had the grim task of informing the author that The Satanic Verses was banned in India.

One of the world's greatest novelists, Salman Rushdie has won many prestigious international literary awards and was knighted ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie by repeatedly stabbing him on stage following a fatwa over The Satanic Verses. Matar faces up to 25 years in prison with ...

Matar, from New Jersey, previously told media he had read only two pages of The Satanic Verses, but believed the author had “attacked Islam”. After the novel was published in 1988, Rushdie ...