The Latest Breaking News from Salman Rushdie

From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

Author also said he is ‘over’ the knife attack that left him blind in one eye

Author tells Hay festival AI has no sense of humour but when it writes a funny book ‘we’re screwed’

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

Lawyers for New Jersey man Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.

Hadi Matar was convicted of attempted murder for 2022 attack that left writer blind in his right eye

A New York jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Hadi Matar of trying to kill the celebrated author