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• Salman Rushdie

  Salman Rushdie

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  Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ‘Midnight's Children’, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ‘The Satanic Verses’, was the subject of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. In 2012, he published ‘Joseph Anton: A Memoir’, an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over ‘The Satanic Verses’.

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• Sinéad Gleeson

  Sinéad Gleeson

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  Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish Book Award-winning writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. She released her first book 'Constellations', a collection of personal essays, in 2019. Gleeson has been a book and music reviewer for The Irish Times on RTÉ Radio 1. She has been a judge for the Choice Music Prize. She is a writer in residence at University College Dublin.

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• Vinita Dawra Nangia

  Vinita Dawra Nangia

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  Vinita Dawra Nangia is a renowned Delhi-based author and columnist who is the Director of Times Literature Festivals and Executive Editor, Times of India. She is also Founder-Director Write India, the world’s biggest movement for crowd-sourced writing -- a project she conceptualized and launched to discover the next generation of writers. Write India has attracted 70,000 short stories and launched 300 winners, making Vinita a driving force behind the country’s fresh writing talent. Her exceedingly popular weekly column in The Times of India--O-zone – is a life commentary, throwing light on contemporary living and relationships.

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