After leaving The New Yorker, he taught at Yale, Vassar, New York University, and elsewhere. He was hired as a staff writer in 1961 and remained there until 1994. He worked for more than thirty years at The New Yorker magazine. Shawn's New York: The Invisible Art of Editing (1998). His other books included Walking the Indian Streets The Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1963) The New Theologian (1966) John is Easy to Please (1971) Delinquent Chacha (1967) and Remembering Mr. The last book in the series, The Red Letters, was published in 2004. They were collectively known as, Continents of Exile. But he was best-known work was a 12-volume memoir that also illuminated the history of India. He wrote numerous articles on life in 20th-century India. He received his master's degree from Harvard in 1961. He earned a second bachelor's degree in modern history from Balliol College, Oxford. He later attended Pomona College in Southern California, graduating in 1956. At 15, he came to the United States to attend a school for the blind in Arkansas. He was born in Lahore, India on March 21, 1934. It is our honour to publish Salman's prolific works, and to stand with him and the entire literary community as we remind the world of the power and necessity of the written word.Ved Parkash Mehta was an America writer and journalist. Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, said in a statement that Rushdie's voice and literary works are inextricably tied to the advancement of freedom of expression, and the attack on him is a horrifying and unconscionable act of violence.Īs publishers, we have a collective responsibility to support writers whose books and ideas ensure an open and ever-evolving society. We are gathering as friends, associates and admirers to amplify Salman's words and convey our warm wishes, but also to rise in defence of principles that will not be extinguished by violence. The outpouring of support for Salman from leaders, friends, admirers and readers worldwide has the potential to fuel a watershed moment for the freedom to write, a cause that is synonymous with Salman's life and work. We are shaken to the core by this grievous assault, a reminder to us all that our rights and freedoms are more precarious than we wish to acknowledge.
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Nossel had said in a statement that Rushdie is both an author of unmatched distinction, and a relentless champion for free expression, using his voice to support imperilled writers and intellectuals across the globe over decades. PEN America said that in addition to the Manhattan rally, public readings of Rushdie's works were encouraged around the globe as well as online with the hashtag #StandWithSalman to remind Rushdie of both the affection that writers and readers have for him and their solidarity with his unrelenting belief in the right of writers to create without fear of reprisal. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and remains in Chautauqua County jail.
Matar was arrested and charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault. Though his life-changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact, he said. Two days after the attack, his son Zafar Rushdie had said in a statement that his family is extremely relieved that Rushdie was taken off the ventilator and additional oxygen and was able to say a few words.įollowing the attack on Friday, my father remains in critical condition in hospital receiving extensive ongoing medical treatment, the statement had said. Today, we will celebrate Salman for what he has endured, but even more importantly, because of what he has engendered the stories, characters, metaphors and images he has given to the world." She said that Rushdie has been a constant, indefatigable champion of words and of writers attacked for the purported crime of their work. He sliced through time, jolting all of us to recognise that horror of the past is haunting the present, CEO of PEN America Suzanne Nossel said at the start of the event. When a would-be murderer punched a knife to Salman Rushdie's neck, he pierced more than just the flesh of a renowned writer. Rushdie, the Mumbai-born controversial author who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing 'The Satanic Verses', was airlifted to a local trauma centre and put on a ventilator and underwent several hours of surgery.
The event was hosted exactly a week after Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and stomach onstage in front of a stunned audience by 24-year-old New Jersey man Hadi Matar before the Satanic Verses' author was about to speak at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. PEN said through the event, that writers from around the world stand in solidarity with Rushdie and "celebrate his tireless advocacy for the freedom of expression and the plight of imperilled writers around the globe.
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