To: All Students
From: James M. Glaser, Dean of Undergraduate Education
I am very happy to report that the novelist Salman Rushdie will be delivering a lecture on campus on Tuesday, September 27 at 7:30 in Cohen Auditorium. A reception and book signing will follow his talk.
Sponsored by the Richard E. Snyder Presidential Lecture Series, "Step Across this Line: A Conversation with Salman Rushdie" offers you a chance to hear from one of the most important and controversial novelists of our time. Admission is free, but you will need a general admission ticket, which may be obtained at the Dowling Hall Student Services Desk with your student ID (one ticket per ID). These tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis beginning Friday, September 16th at 10:30 AM. You may bring one other current Tufts student's ID for a second ticket.
Salman Rushdie is the author of such well-known books as Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. This latter novel was deemed sacrilegious by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni, who issued a fatwa against Rushdie in 1989. Despite this death sentence, Rushdie went on to produce some of his most compelling work, including The Moor's Last Sigh and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, while the fatwa was still in place. His recent book, Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002, contains a collection of articles, some of which explore his own reaction to the fatwa, as well as reactions of the media and various governments. In most of his works, Rushdie draws on his unique upbringing and personal history to make bold statements about modern life.
In 2004, Rushdie was named the president of The PEN American Centre, the largest branch of PEN International, the world's oldest human rights organization. As president, he will continue to work to dispel national, ethnic, and racial hatreds; and to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship. Rushdie's brand new novel, Shalimar the Clown, was released in the fall of 2005 to widespread acclaim. He is the winner of numerous international literary prizes and awards, including the Man Booker Award, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Mantova Prize in Italy, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the London International Writers’ Award.
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'Rush' 'die', someone sould kill that nacas
