The Latest Breaking News from Salman Rushdie

Dozens of high profile writers including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and Dame Marina Warner have all criticised its current leadership

Molly Rosenberg and Daljit Nagra will both stand down, as the society’s first-ever governance review is due to be published

Sansal was reportedly arrested on arrival in Algiers on 16 November, with French President Macron demanding information about his whereabouts

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is famous for his forthright statements to other world leaders. In March 1989, Mahathir wrote a letter to then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that was blunt even by his standards. Unlike a lot of his angry letters, this one wasn’t published.

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India's three-decade ban on Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" may be lifted after the government lost the official court order to keep it banned.

The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt

Government unable to produce ‘untraceable’ notification against 1988 novel when citizen brought matter to court

A reader brought the case in 2019 after failing to find official proof of the ban on government websites.