Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
This fall a new opera called Haroun premiered, based on the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. In 1989, Rushdie was forced into hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini and declared that his novel The Satanic Verses was heresy against Islam — essentially marking the writer for assassination. Jonathan Mitchell has the […]
Salman Rushdie
When it came to writing his new children’s book, Luka and the Fire of Life, the novelist Salman Rushdie stuck with his attraction to moody themes. “I’ve always liked writing that slightly writes against the grain of what it’s supposed to be doing,” he tells Kurt. “So if it’s a kind of dark thing you […]