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Rushdie’s prolific body of literary works involves the controversial The Satanic Verses’ (Image: AP File)
If the 75-year-outmoded renowned British American novelist wins, he will change into the first Indian-born writer to settle the prestigious honour since Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel for Gitanjali’ in 1913
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-successful Middle of the evening’s Formative years,’ who’s getting better after being stabbed in New York in August, is tipped amongst the bookmakers’ because the favourites within the UK to settle this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.
The Guardian’ newspaper analysed the betting odds to search out that the bottom odds for Rushdie successful had been 13/2 on Tuesday afternoon.
If the 75-year-outmoded renowned British American novelist wins, he will change into the first Indian-born writer to settle the prestigious honour since Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel for Gitanjali’ in 1913.
The prize price 10-million Swedish krona, conferred by the Nobel committee on the one who shall own produced within the realm of literature essentially the most outstanding work in an very most provocative course, is to be launched on Thursday.
Rushdie’s prolific body of literary works involves the controversial The Satanic Verses’, which ended in a fatwa from the aged supreme chief of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini.
The attack on New York-primarily based Rushdie on August 12 came 33 years after the spiritual edict calling on Muslims to assassinate the author over the allegedly blasphemous unique.
Hadi Matar, 24, has been charged with one rely of second-level tried raze and one rely of second-level assault and has pleaded no longer responsible to each prices.
Per the Nicer Odds aggregator, others amongst the favourites to settle consist of French authors Michel Houellebecq and Annie Ernaux, Canadians Anne Carson and Margaret Atwood, Jap writer Haruki Murakami, and American Stephen King.
The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature used to be awarded to Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the outcomes of colonialism and the destiny of the refugee within the gulf between cultures and continents.
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