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NOVELISTS > novelist > Salman Rushdie
A poet's work...
Vendor: NOVELISTS
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Source: In Independent, (London), 18 Feb. 1989.
-- Salman Rushdie, (Jun 19 1947-____), Indian-English novelist; His novel, The Satanic Verses, enraged Moslems, branded an enemy of Islam, and forced him into hiding.