Among many celebrity endorsers, Annie Leibovitz photographed Salman Rushdie clutching a burning ad for Absolut.
They were blown away with one mighty swoosh by the arrival on the scene of Salman Rushdie.
The author Salman Rushdie, a friend, paid tribute to him on Twitter after the announcement of his death.
"I guess Quinn will win, and I don't mind, " said author Salman Rushdie.
" Salman Rushdie is a novelist whose works include "Midnight's Children, " which won the Booker Prize, and "The Satanic Verses.
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Salman Rushdie was born in India but is a British citizen and has lived in the UK for most of his life.
Author Sir Salman Rushdie has accused the chief minister of India's West Bengal state of stopping his visit to Calcutta earlier this week.
Quite a lot of Britain's top controversialists, such as Christopher Hitchens or Salman Rushdie, seem to spend much of their time in America.
Author Sir Salman Rushdie's visit to the Indian city of Calcutta to promote the Midnight's Children film has been cancelled at the last minute.
It was in 1989 that the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued his Fatwa - or spiritual opinion - that effectively condemned Salman Rushdie to death.
Also listed is a memoir by renowned novelist Sir Salman Rushdie.
In 2006, for an undisclosed amount, Salman Rushdie sold it 200 "falling apart, crappy cardboard boxes, " as he said at the collection's opening in 2010.
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On March 14th he cancelled a trip to a conference in India because Salman Rushdie, an author who has fallen foul of Muslim fundamentalists, would be there.
Look how far we have come since a confused UK hid Salman Rushdie under its skirts, acting on remnants of principles and hardly aware of what was at stake.
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It also offers some insights into the murky world of Machiavellian and subservient editors, and has some delightful pen sketches of people like VS Naipaul and Salman Rushdie whom he befriended.
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Three weeks ago the government managed to soothe Britain about its intentions towards Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who in 1989 was sentenced to death in a fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.
The Subcontinent also holds a special cachet for publishers, both as a market and as a source of English-language writers, especially following the international success of authors like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy.
Vikram Seth from Vienna, Rohinton Mistry from Toronto, Amitav Ghosh from New York, Arundhati Roy from Amsterdam, Vikram Chandra from Bombay and the most illustrious of them all, Salman Rushdie, from his latest hideout, wherever that was.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about new authors so I'm going to be given a list of 20 exciting new novelists - and hopefully amongst them will be the new Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, William Boyd or Kazuo Ishiguro...
Mr. Ahmadinejad was asked at the breakfast whether the Islamic Republic had formally lifted a 1980s religious decree that called for the death of the British writer Salman Rushdie, who wrote a novel that Muslim leaders considered anti-Islamic.
On 10 January, leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband - which is based in Uttar Pradesh - called on the government to block Salman Rushdie's visit as he "had annoyed the religious sentiments of Muslims in the past".
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