Next Tuesday, the Centre for Fine Arts will be welcoming a very distinguished guest. The New York-based, British-Indian author Salman Rushdie is coming to Brussels to discuss Joseph Anton. A Memoir, his recently published book that describes his highly unusual life story. Rushdie is one of the world’s most famous authors, and he receives prizes by the dozen (in 2008, he was awarded the special Best of Booker Prize, which judged literature over no less than the past 40 years), but he did not only garner his notoriety with his literary talent. When in 1989, after unrelenting protests, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him, the author of The Satanic Verses (1988) had to go into hiding. Set in this turbulent period, Joseph Anton reveals itself to be a book of many guises: it covers not only the secret life under the alias he eked out of his two great examples Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov, but also exactly what happened to make him the celebrated and maligned author of delicious blends of fantasy and reality, and even more intimately, the man that he is. And it deals with the inevitable topic of freedom, which is fortunately bringing him to Brussels on
13 November.
Salman Rushdie 13/11, 20.00, €10/14, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux-Arts,
rue Ravensteinstraat 23, Brussel/Bruxelles, 02-507.82.00, info@bozar.be, www.bozar.be
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