Salman Rushdie @SalmanRushdie Twitter profile

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Salman Rushdie

@SalmanRushdie

1 year

This photo seems to have vanished from my tweets. Here it is again, just for the record.

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1 year

Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.

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@SuzanneNossel

1 year

At @PENamerica we are alarmed at news of "hundreds of changes" to venerated works by @roald_dahl in a purported effort to scrub the books of that which might offend someone. 1/13

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#ImWithHer

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I think you have the wrong Salman. I’m @BeingSalmanKhan .

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He was a self confessed antisemite, with pronounced racist leanings, and he joined in the attack on me back in 1989… but thanks for telling me off for defending his work from the bowdlerizing Sensitivity Police.

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3 years

Dear @potus , @JoeBiden - the US has something like a vaccine glut. India is in dire straits. Please overturn this export ban ASAP.

US denies India's request to lift an export ban on raw materials needed to make COVID-19 vaccines

The US State Department said that the US is focusing on vaccinating the American people when asked about sending raw materials to India for vaccine production. The response comes after the Serum Institute of India asked the US to lift an export ban on these materials, a request that has yet to be met. India is currently facing a large surge in COVID-19 cases with over 300,000 new cases recorded in one day this week. Some estimates suggest that the US export ban could last another month.

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You’re not required to buy it. The truth is the truth whether you buy it or not. The planet is round even if you don’t buy that and insist it’s flat.

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1 year

Fake quote. Not said by me,

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6 years

We disagreed all our lives, about politics, about literature, and I feel as sad as if I just lost a beloved older brother. RIP Vidia. #VSNaipaul

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5 years

Even from seven thousand miles away it’s clear that what’s happening in Kashmir is an atrocity. Not much to celebrate this August 15th.

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4 years

How to brush aside the tragedy of 210,000 American families in one steroid-high tweet.

Donald J. Trump

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4 years

I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!

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2 years

Stop posting this fake quote please.

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1 year

Here are the US and UK editions! US publication date: February 7th. UK on February 9th. Not long now.

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3 months

Just wondering if the Royal Society of Literature is “impartial” about attempted murder, @BernardineEvari ? (Asking for a friend.)

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3 months

Wonder how @SalmanRushdie feels reading this

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12 days

Oh for goodness’ sake. This is a fake quote as I have said many times. Stop it, please.

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3 years

Midnight’s Children was published 40 years ago this week. Here’s a picture of me, in a daze, making some sort of speech after winning the Booker Prize later that year. (Sorry about the cigarette.)

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7 years

Done. You're welcome, #MadamPresident ! #imwithher

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1 year

Penguin Books back down after Roald Dahl backlash!

Penguin to publish "classic" Roald Dahl books after backlash

The book publisher had received criticism for removing passages related to weight, mental health, gender and race.

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3 years

Thanks for the compliment, but I'm "only" 73.

(((Diego Moldes)))

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3 years

Great writers over 75 years old that you should follow on Twitter, if you love quality literature and culture @edgarmorinparis @alejodorowsky @Eponiatowska @arrabalf @Kallifatides @StephenKing @JoyceCarolOates @MargaretAtwood @SalmanRushdie Grandes escritores de más de 75 años

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I’m absolutely delighted about this: so delighted that I’m tweeting about it after a very long tweet-silence.

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6 years

Exclusive: @SalmanRushdie 's 'Midnight's Children' set as @Netflix TV series

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1 year

I’m totally available to play the next Doctor Who. Somebody needs to call my agent.

Barry Wall

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1 year

@SalmanRushdie You look like the next doctor who. I'm down for that. @moleatthedoor mischief?

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8 years

So @IvankaTrump spoke about her compassionate, caring father and then this shrieking orange hoodlum grabbed the mic. Where's dad, Ivanka?

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8 years

From Orpheus to Faiz,song & poetry have been closely linked. Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition.Great choice. #Nobel

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2 months

“Luciferian deceiver?” Hahaha. I think I want that on a t shirt. Thank you, crazy asshole.

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@MichaelInTruth

2 months

They’re going to blame Iran for the Trump assassination. It’ll be used as the Casus Belli to start the middle eastern theater of WWIII. On 8/12/22, they said that luciferian deceiver @SalmanRushdie got stabbed while at a speaking engagement & coincidentally lost his right eye.

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8 years

What Presidential grace once looked like: George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton.

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@Joyce_Karam

8 years

Reminder of what "Presidential" look like. George H. Bush letter to Bill Clinton on inauguration in 1993:

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Cheering and singing in the street. Banging of drums, ringing of bells, honking of horns, shouts from windows, and many happy tears. New York City explodes with joy. #PresidentBidenVPHarris2020

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9 years

Vive la France!In what other country would millions assemble holding pens and pencils to defend literary journalistic and artistic freedom?

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8 years

What is to be done about a Presidential candidate who speculates about the future assassination of his victorious rival? Don't boo, vote.

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3 years

I just heard about @geneweingarten for the first time in my life. What he doesn’t know about indian food would fill an encyclopedia. I plan never to hear about him again.

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1 year

I just watched The Elephant Whisperers, the beautiful short film by Kartiki Gonsalves, Oscar nominated for Best Documentary Short. Strongly recommended. (It’s on Netflix.) Good luck at the Oscars!

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9 years

“ @saliltripathi : For the anti-immigrantistas: http://t.co/UB2KrlK0g7” I like this.

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9 years

. @umesh110168 Yes. When you commit murder because somebody says things you dislike you cross the frontier between civilisation & barbarity.

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1 year

The first extract from VICTORY CITY is published in ⁦ @NewYorker ⁩ today.

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3 years

Ding, dong.

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9 years

No it isn't. It's in spite of people like her.

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9 years

@SalmanRushdie The freedom you enjoy is because of people like #kimdavis

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5 years

Hope grammatical indian will.

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9 years

Here's my brief statement about the awful events in Paris. Vive Charlie Hebdo! http://t.co/kspeTLCQ78

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4 years

This is a fake tweet, which seems to be circulating. I have never said anything of this sort. @Twitter @jack please note and take this down.

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3 years

Oh, just fuck off.

Hume

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3 years

@SalmanRushdie Nonsense. They have no idea how much tears of pain they will have to shed in the next 4 years when Biden and his family earn millions and they starve.

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8 years

Of course the Trump flacks are now trying to confuse the issue, but Senator Murphy is clear about what Trump meant.

Chris Murphy 🟧

@ChrisMurphyCT

8 years

Don't treat this as a political misstep. It's an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis.

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Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ (Published 2023)

Nearly six months after he was brutally attacked, Rushdie is recovering and releasing a new novel, with the literary world rallying to his side.

www.nytimes.com

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8 years

The last time I saw the Hitch. (The other guy is Voltaire.) Four years gone already. Much love, old friend.

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1 year

Published in India!

Milee Ashwarya

@mileeashwarya

1 year

Congratulations, @SalmanRushdie on the publication of #VictoryCity @PenguinIndia @ZafRushdie #HappyPublicationDay @vintagebooks

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1 year

Very nice.

Random House Group

@randomhouse

1 year

Congratulations @SalmanRushdie ! VICTORY CITY is a NYT bestseller! 🎉

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1 year

And now a wonderful review in the Washington Post! (Not sure about the face I’m making…)

Review | Salman Rushdie’s first novel since he was attacked is a tale of magic

"Victory City," Salman Rushdie's first novel since he was attacked at the Chautauqua Institution, is a magical tale about the struggle to create a better world.

www.washingtonpost.com

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2 years

Another view of the US cover! #VictoryCity publication date: February 9th, 2023. @randomhouse @PRHDigital @penguinrandom

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3 years

This is an outrageous act of censorship against one of the most important advocates of free speech. @Twitter stop it now! @jack what’s going on?

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4 months

I will writhe like a serpent. Just wash me.

M Christoffersen

@MChristofferse1

4 months

@SalmanRushdie @vintagebooks I have enjoyed your novel, translated to danish, a fantastic novel with many aspects on religion, life and our time? Please go on writhing.

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8 years

Remain.

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1 year

This has come back to haunt me before. 😊 In my defence, I was young and needed the money.

Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

My dad owns a promotional single he got for joining Burnley Building Society in the 70s and the lyrics were written by @SalmanRushdie I expect he's busy but it would be nice to know if he remembers writing it

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One of the very best and most generous reviews, by #JeetThayil via @thewire_in

Salman Rushdie’s ‘Victory City’ Is a Victory of the Imagination

The author asks in his new book: How much of our history is believable? How much of our memory is false? How much of historical truth is invented? Finally, it asks a question of our own contemporary...

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1 year

I’ll be watching!

Vintage Books

@vintagebooks

1 year

Join us for a free digital event, celebrating the literary genius of @SalmanRushdie . @MargaretAtwood and Neil Gaiman ( @neilhimself ), chaired by @EricaWgnr , will be discussing Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City, with readings by Sarita Choudhury:

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5 years

If you think disgust with genocide denialists is political correctness, then I think our conversation is over, sir.

Martin Middeke

@martinmiddeke

5 years

@SalmanRushdie Yes. But re-read A Sorrow Beyond Dreams on the suicide of his mother and you know what I mean. And generally, a slap in the face of political correctness can be beneficial and curative too.

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Here's the US cover! #VictoryCity publication date: February 9th, 2023. @randomhouse @PRHDigital @penguinrandom

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7 years

I may not be the youngest one but let's do this! #MillennialForADay #itsabigdeal #Vote #madampresident #imwithher

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11 months

May I just say, dear @nytimes , that the great Bob Gottlieb did not publish The Satanic Verses, as your obituary notice incorrectly says. He published Midnight’s Children and Shame. TSV was published by Peter Mayer at Viking. Please correct?

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Great grief for the fallen, anger at the fanaticism that has created a vile mutation in the heart of Islam, & contempt for the but brigade.

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8 years

This admission just took 27 years. How many more before the "mistake" is corrected?

The Times Of India

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8 years

Ban on @SalmanRushdie 's book was a mistake, P. Chidambaram says #TLFDelhi

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Oh well. If the world doesn't end tonight, it's not the end of the world.

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"Courage ...not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." The world gives thanks for a life of courage. http://t.co/175B95XR3Y

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3 years

No, never. But thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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8 years

The Satanic Acknowledgment: This is Saul Alinsky on Lucifer. Can't expect Ben Carson to recognize irony or humor.

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4 years

This is the cover for my book of essays Languages of Truth which Random House will publish on May 25th 2021, a collection including many texts never previously in print. Preorder here:

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Very nice piece in the LA Times.

Salman Rushdie's new novel reminds us how his writing changed the world

Salman Rushdie, who was nearly killed last summer for his work, has a new novel out, "Victory City." Here's why his writing will endure.

www.latimes.com

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The Turkish publisher @canyayinlari has apologized to me. All existing copies are being withdrawn and a corrected edition will be printed. Thanks for drawing my attention to this.

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8 years

Old Farts 1 The Future 0. Well done England. Maybe lose to Iceland next & get out of Europe properly?

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The most depressing data from today. Young people wanted a very different future to the one voted for this morning

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My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.

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I wrote about Handke’s idiocies 20 years ago. I agree with you.

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5 years

@SalmanRushdie Dear Salman, I believe you read the news about the latest laureate of the #NobelPrize for literature. I am shocked. It is a slap in the face of all the victims of #Milo šević regime.

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The murderers were Muslims. Stalinists were Marxists. Communism discredited Marxism.Islamic maniacs discredit Islam.

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Islam stands for peace and tolerance ... not violence!

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3 years

Fortieth anniversary in April! Stay tuned...

KitaabJunction

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3 years

Twenty-five years after its publication, this novel still stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time... @SalmanRushdie

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Probably because I can spell "why," "you," "are," as well as my own name & several other words. How about you?

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@SalmanRushdie Roshdy y u r such A Big Harami ?

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My MasterClass trailer...

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I signed some books…

Vintage Books

@vintagebooks

2 months

A limited number of signed copies of @SalmanRushdie ’s KNIFE:

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A quick informal survey. Which do you like best? US/Canadian cover on the left, UK/Indian cover on the right? Me, I like both a lot.

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3 years

The tragedy in India is immense and growing. Here are some organizations to donate to. Please help if you can.

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Very good luck to you . I hope for the best. And thank you.

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@SalmanRushdie You are my hero. I am facing a difficult brain operation which could cause handicap. You are my hero.

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First make outrageous statement. Then have VP pick contradict it. Then get stooge to deny it. Then blame Hillary. #Trumputin

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3 years

This is true.

Gary Shteyngart

@Shteyngart

3 years

John LeCarre was one of the greatest and most influential writers of the 20th Century, full stop. RIP.

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It’s relevant to me. You can make your own decision.

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3 years

@SalmanRushdie Do you still think your writing is relevant?

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You should have stayed. We might have hugged too.

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3 years

Ah, a fan.

A.A Malik

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3 years

@SalmanRushdie You are agent of Satan. Change your name dog. What about your dirty book named satanic verses

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Four years ago it was a feeling of joy. This time the main feeling was relief that we don't have to wake up tomorrow in Romney's America.

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3 years

Don’t tell anyone, but I am writing about India again right now, and glad to be “back.” Not Kolkata though. Sorry.

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8 years

Would it be wrong to think that there might be a reason for buying my book that is not related to Khomeini?

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3 years

Here’s the 40th anniversary edition, with a new introduction by me.

Vintage Books

@vintagebooks

3 years

We are delighted to reveal the new cover of Midnight’s Children by @SalmanRushdie , which will be reissued on 8th April 2021 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this much loved book.