2025-11-05
42 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
On today's episode, author Salman Rushdie reflects on legacy, mortality,
and his return to fiction after the attempt on his life in 2022.
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors.
Now, during on his new short story collection, The Eleventh Hour,
Rushdie sits down with broadcaster and journalist Kavita Puri to discuss the people and places that have shaped him and explores what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life.
Let's join our host, Kavita Puri, now with more.
Welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm Kavita Puri.
Our guest today is Salman Rushdie.
Salman is one of the world's most acclaimed award-winning contemporary authors.
He's written 22 books and has been translated into over 40 languages.
His works of fiction include Midnight's Children, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981,
the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize,
and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary.
He's also written Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Victory City.
His latest book of non-fiction, Knife,
Meditations After An Attempted Murder, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller.
And today I'm delighted to speak to Salman about his latest book,