Archives: Salman Rushdie
Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library: The Salman Rushdie Papers
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's best-known writers of fiction and essays and a leading champion for human rights. His position as Distinguished-Writer-in-Residence at Emory, begun in spring 2007, is a five-year appointment. During each of the five years, he presents a public lecture, teaches for at least four weeks, leads a graduate seminar, participates in undergraduate classes, advises students and engages in symposia with the academic community.
In 2006, Rushdie placed his archive at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Included in the archive are Rushdie's private journals detailing life under the fatwa, as well as personal correspondence, notebooks, photographs and manuscripts of all of his writings, including two early unpublished novels.
His novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), won Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, and was voted last year the "greatest Booker Prize winner in the 40-year history of the award." Subsequent novels, including "The Satanic Verses" (1988), "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (1999), "Shalimar the Clown" (2005) and "The Enchantress of Florence," involve a panoramic scope, weaving mythology, pop culture, politics and religions from around the world to epic effect.
In 2007, Rushdie was knighted in recognition of his contributions to literature.
Multimedia
Listen in as Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence, speaks about his creative process.
- View the Salman Rushdie collection on Emory's YouTube Channel
- Creativity Conversations: Salman Rushdie on Emory on iTunes U
Some Salman Rushdie sites
Sir Salman Rushdie: Emory's Department of English
Additional media coverage
Albee, Rushdie to give reading of early Beckett letters / University news release, March 2009
Rushdie to give public lecture at Emory / University news release, February 2009
Rushdie hour: Living proof that books can change your life / Emory Magazine, Spring 2008
