Salman Rushdie Deserves Nobel Prize: Shashi Tharoor

New Delhi: Congress leader and author Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday showered praises on Salman Rushdie terming him as the “greatest living Indian writer”. Tharoor also added that the “overdue” Nobel Prize for Rushdie should not be withheld any longer.

Tharoor recently finished reading the Mumbai-born Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, “Victory City”. “I’ve just finished Salman Rushdie’s magnificent & magical “Victory City” — a fabulous recreation of the history of the Vijaynagar Empire through his magical-realist lens, brilliantly written as always, full of the verve and brio of a writer at the height of his powers,” Tharoor tweeted.

It is the tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries.

“That overdue Nobel must not be withheld any longer to the greatest living Indian writer,” Shashi Tharoor added.

Salman Rushdie has faced death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses”. On August 12, 2022, he was stabbed lethally by a 24-year-old man. Rushdie received the Booker Prize in 1981 for “Midnight’s Children”. This novel also won the Booker of Bookers and the Best of the Booker in 1993 and 2008.