Salman Rushdie

18 Feb 2016

Sir Salman Rushdie, one of the most celebrated writers of our time, will give a free public talk at UNC Asheville’s Kimmel Arena, beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18. His lecture is titled Public Events, Private Lives: Literature + Politics in the Modern World. The author of 12 novels, a book of stories and four works of non-fiction, Rushdie’s works have been translated into more than 40 languages. He has received numerous awards, including the U.K.’s Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel, Midnight’s Children (Jonathan Cape, 1981). In 1993, it won the “Booker of the Bookers,” and in 2008, it was voted the “Best of Booker.” He received knighthood status in England in 2007 for services to literature.