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Boston Public Library Press Release News and Events |
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Salman Rushdie To Discuss Literature And Politics At The Boston Public Library Internationally celebrated author Sir Salman Rushdie will speak at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall. He will discuss “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in The Modern World.” His life experience and understanding allows him to describe vividly the way the world has changed. Salman Rushdie has experienced the threat of modern terrorism first hand. For years he lived under the threat of death from the very kind of religious extremism that today is driving much of the violence and terror seen in the headlines. Sir Salman Rushdie is one of the most successful, controversial and celebrated authors of our time. His novels have won critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, while his ideas have stimulated, galvanized, and provoked. He is the author of such international bestsellers as Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. The latter was deemed sacrilegious by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, who issued a fatwa against Rushdie in 1989. Earlier this year, Rushdie was knighted by the Queen of England for his services to literature. Rushdie is one of today's most witty and provocative intellectuals. Rushdie is the winner of numerous literary prizes and awards, including the prestigious Man Booker Prize, and the "Booker of Bookers" Award, which was awarded to the best Booker-winning novel of the prize's first 25 years. This is the first of an annual series of lectures funded at the Boston Public Library by the Lowell Institute. The lecture is free and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. For more than 150 years, the Boston Public Library has pioneered public library service in America with revolutionary ideas and famous firsts. Established in 1848, the BPL was the first publicly supported municipal library in America, the first public library to lend books, the first to have a branch library and the first to have a children’s room. Today, the BPL boasts 27 neighborhood branches, free Internet access, two unique restaurants, an award-winning website www.bpl.org and an on-line store featuring reproductions of the BPL’s priceless photographs and artwork. Each year, the BPL hosts nearly 5000 programs, answers more than one million reference questions and serves millions of people in its National Historic Landmark McKim Building in Copley Square. All of its programs and exhibits are free and open to the public. At the Boston Public Library, books are just the beginning! -30- Prepared by the Boston Public Library's Communications Office. For more information about news, programs and events at the BPL, call 617-859-2212 or send a message to the Communications Office. |
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