Shashi Tharoor urged that the time has come for Salman Rushdie to get the coveted Nobel Prize. (file)
New Delhi:
Paying rich praise to Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, politician and author Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday insisted that the “overdue” Nobel Prize should no longer be withheld from the “greatest living Indian writer”.
Mr Tharoor recently finished the Mumbai-born author’s latest novel, “Victory City”, based around the medieval city of Hampi, the ruined site of the Vijayanagara Empire in Karnataka.
I’ve just finished @Salman RushdieK’s spectacular and magical “Victory City” – a brilliant recreation of the history of the Vijayanagara Empire through his magic-realist lens, brilliantly written as ever, brimming with the gusto and gusto of a writer at the height of his powers. Book…
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 1, 2023
“I have just finished Salman Rushdie’s brilliant and magical “Victory City” – a brilliant recreation of the history of the Vijayanagara Empire through his magic-realist lens, brilliantly written as ever, an author at his height Full of energy and enthusiasm about his strengths,” Mr Tharoor tweeted.
Stylized as a translation of an ancient epic, the novel is the story of a woman who breathes into existence an imaginary kingdom, only to be consumed by the centuries.
Quoting the book’s last sentence “Words only win”, the 67-year-old Congress leader, who is himself a bestselling author, said, “The one who uses these words is also a winner, and ‘Vijay Nagar’ is a victory.” “
He further urged that the time has come for the “greatest living Indian writer” to receive the prestigious Nobel Prize.
He said, “That outstanding Nobel should no longer be withheld for the greatest living Indian writer.”
The novelist, who had faced death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses”, was stabbed by a 24-year-old man on August 12 last year, suffering life-threatening injuries.
Mr. Rushdie received the prestigious Booker Prize in 1981 for “Midnight’s Children”. The novel also won the Booker of Bookers and Best of the Booker in 1993 and 2008, respectively.
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