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Rushdie has quietly mentored younger Indian (and ethnic-Indian) writers, influenced an entire generation of
Indo-Anglian
writers, and is an influential writer in postcolonial literature in general.
[20]
He has received many plaudits for his writings, including the European Union's
Aristeion Prize
for Literature, the
Premio Grinzane Cavour
(Italy), and the Writer of the Year Award in Germany and many of literature's highest honours.
[21]
Rushdie was the President of
PEN American Center
from 2004 to 2006.
He opposed the British government's introduction of the
Racial and Religious Hatred Act
, something he writes about in his contribution to
Free Expression Is No Offence
, a collection of essays by several writers, published by
Penguin
in November 2005.
In 2006, Rushdie joined the
Emory University
faculty as Distinguished Writer in Residence for a five-year term.
[22]
Though he enjoys writing, Salman Rushdie says that he would have become an actor if his writing career had not been successful. Even from early childhood, he dreamed of appearing in Hollywood movies (which he later realized in his frequent cameo appearances).
Rushdie includes fictional television and movie characters in some of his writings. He had a
cameo appearance
in the film
Bridget Jones's Diary
based on the
book of the same name
, which is itself full of literary in-jokes. On 12 May 2006, Rushdie was a guest host on
The Charlie Rose Show
, where he interviewed
Indo-Canadian
filmmaker
Deepa Mehta
, whose 2005 film,
Water
, faced violent protests. He appears in the role of
Helen Hunt
's
obstetrician-gynecologist
in the film adaptation (Hunt's directorial debut) of
Elinor Lipman
's novel
Then She Found Me
. In September 2008, and again in March 2009, he appeared as a panelist on the HBO program "Real Time With Bill Maher".
Rushdie is currently collaborating on the screenplay for the cinematic adaptation of his novel
Midnight's Children
with noted director
Deepa Mehta
. The film will be called
Midnight's Children
. While casting is still in progress,
Seema Biswas
,
Shabana Azmi
,
Nandita Das
, and
Irrfan Khan
are confirmed as participating in the film.
Mehta has stated that production will begin in September, 2010.
Rushdie announced in June 2011 that he had written the first draft of a script for a new television series for the U.S. cable network
Showtime
, a project on which he will also serve as an executive producer. The new series, to be called
The Next People
, will be, according to Rushie, "a sort of paranoid science-fiction series, people disappearing and being replaced by other people." The idea of a television series was suggested by his U.S. agents, said Rushdie, who felt that television would allow him more creative control than feature film.
The Next People
is being made by the British film production company
Working Title
, the firm behind such projects as
Four Weddings and a Funeral
and
Shaun of the Dead
.
Rushdie is a member of the advisory board of
The Lunchbox Fund
, a non-profit organization which provides daily meals to students of township schools in
Soweto
of
South Africa
. He is also a member of the advisory board of the
Secular Coalition for America
,
an advocacy group representing the interests of atheistic and humanistic Americans in Washington, D.C. In November 2010 he became a founding patron of
Ralston College
, a new liberal arts college that has adopted as its motto a Latin translation of a phrase ("free speech is life itself") from an address he gave at Columbia University in 1991 to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
He took on
Facebook
over the use of his name in 2011. He won. Rushdie had asked to use his middle name Salman, which he is most recognised by. He described his online identity crisis in a series of messages posted on
Twitter
, among them ""Dear #Facebook, forcing me to change my FB name from Salman to Ahmed Rushdie is like forcing
J. Edgar
to become John Hoover" and "Or, if
F. Scott Fitzgerald
was on #Facebook, would they force him to be Francis Fitzgerald? What about
F. Murray Abraham
?" Messages such as these were then circulated online. Facebook eventually relented and allowed him to call himself by the name is known as internationally
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