Postcolonial literature
Literature by people from formerly colonized countries
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| 2025 | Received the Champion of Writers Award from Authors Guild Foundation. |
| 2024 | Published his detailed memoir 'Shattered', which includes diary entries about his accident and recovery process. |
| October 2024 | Signed an open letter with thousands of other writers pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. |
| October 10 2024 | Shared the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize by naming imprisoned British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the 'writer of courage', announced at a ceremony at the British Library. |
| September 2024 | BBC released a biographical documentary 'In My Own Words' by Nigel Williams, featuring Kureishi revisiting his life and career through archive footage. |
| August 2024 | Shared the Disturbing the Peace Award with Toomaj Salehi, a recognition for courageous writers at risk from the Vaclav Havel Center. |
| June 2024 | Announced as winner of the annual PEN Pinter Prize by English PEN, recognizing her fierce intellectual determination in telling stories of injustice. |
| June 2024 | The UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) was invoked against Roy in connection with her previous Kashmir-related statements. |
| May 2024 | Rushdie argued that a potential Palestinian state would resemble a 'Taliban-like state' and become a client state of Iran, while also criticizing the current support of progressive students for Hamas. |
| April 2024 | Published 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder', an autobiographical book about the 2022 attack and his recovery. The book was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. |
| January 8 2024 | The jury selection for the trial of Rushdie's attacker Hadi Matar was originally scheduled to begin, but was delayed due to the lawyer's request to review Rushdie's memoir. |
| December 2023 | Spoke out against Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza, stating that silence makes one complicit in the 'brazen slaughter of Palestinians'. |
| October 2023 | Rushdie expressed 'horror' at both Hamas' attack on Israel and Israel's retaliation in the Gaza Strip, calling for a cessation of hostilities. |
| September 12 2023 | Delivered a lecture in Lausanne upon receiving the 45th European Essay Prize, highlighting her intellectual contributions. |
| April 2023 | Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. |
| February 2023 | Published his fifteenth novel 'Victory City', an epic tale about a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence. This was his first book released after the 2022 attack. |
| 2022 | Survived a stabbing at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. |
| 2022 | Suffered a serious attack that resulted in significant injuries. |
| 2022 | Appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the Birthday Honours for services to literature. |
| December 26 2022 | Kureishi was hospitalised after a fall in Rome, sustaining spinal injuries that left him unable to move his limbs, which he described as a near-death experience. |
| October 23 2022 | Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie reported that the author had lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand as a result of the stabbing attack, though he survived the murder attempt. |
| September 29 2022 | Featured in Storytellers' Studio on the Higher Education Channel, discussing her life and worldviews. |
| August 12 2022 | Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, stabbed multiple times in the face, neck, and abdomen. He was airlifted to UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pennsylvania, and underwent emergency surgery before being placed on a ventilator. |
| April 28 2022 | Received the St. Louis Literary Award from St. Louis University, granted to the 'most important writers of our time'. |
| 2021 | Married American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths. |
| 2021 | Defended Hamas's rocket attacks during the Israel–Palestine crisis, citing Palestinians' right to resistance. |
| 2021 | Published 'Languages of Truth', a collection of essays written between 2003 and 2020. |
| 2021 | Rushdie married American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths. |
| April 28 2021 | Published an article in The Guardian criticizing the Indian government's COVID-19 pandemic response, describing it as a 'crime against humanity' and directly challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handling of the crisis. |
| July 2020 | Rushdie was one of 153 signers of the 'Harper's Letter', expressing concern about increasing restrictions on the free exchange of information and ideas in liberal society. |
| 2019 | Haymarket Books published Roy's nonfiction collection, My Seditious Heart. |
| 2019 | Published short story 'She Said, He Said' in The New Yorker magazine |
| 2019 | Published novel 'What Happened?' through Faber and Faber, continuing his writing career. |
| 2019 | Published 'Quichotte', a modern retelling of Don Quixote. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Swiss Freethinkers Award. |
| December 25 2019 | While speaking at Delhi University, Arundhati Roy urged people to mislead authorities during the National Population Register enumeration, criticizing the potential for creating a database for the National Register of Citizens. Her remarks led to a complaint being filed against her at Tilak Marg police station under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code. |
| August 15 2019 | Rushdie criticized the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status via Twitter, calling the situation 'an atrocity'. |
| 2018 | Received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Indiana University. |
| January 2018 | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. |
| 2017 | Roy's second novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. |
| 2017 | Published novel 'The Nothing' through Faber and Faber, demonstrating his ongoing literary creativity. |
| 2017 | Published 'The Golden House', a satirical novel set in contemporary America. |
| 2017 | Rushdie appeared as himself in episode 3 of season 9 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, offering advice to Larry David about dealing with a fatwa. |
| June 2017 | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness was published. |
| 2016 | Published 'Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations', a collaborative work with John Cusack. |
| 2016 | Acquired American citizenship and voted for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. |
| October 2016 | Penguin India and Hamish Hamilton UK announced the upcoming publication of Roy's second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. |
| February 2016 | Additional money is added to the existing bounty on Rushdie's life, despite previous statements about the fatwa being 'finished'. |
| 2015 | Published 'Love + Hate: Stories and Essays' through Faber & Faber, a collection of stories and essays |
| 2015 | Published 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights', a modern take on One Thousand and One Nights, exploring themes of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism through a war between supernatural jinns. |
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