Salman Rushdie on Whitbread award
- Title
- Salman Rushdie on Whitbread award
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 8 Nov 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:02:50
- Description
- Carol Allen interviews author Salman Rushdie on his novel, The Satanic Verses, winning the Whitbread novel section prize. He says he hopes the award may help the ban on the book to be lifted in India.
- Contributors
- Carol Allen; Salman Rushdie
- Keywords
- Books; Authors; India; Writers; Censorship; Literary prizes; Salman Rushdie; Whitbread award; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature
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