Rushdie is bookmakers' tip
                   
smh.com.au: Hot favourite ... Salman Rushdie. smh.com.au
smh.com.au     13-May-2008            

BOOKMAKERS have installed Salman Rushdie as hot favourite to land a one-off "Best of the Booker" award marking the 40th anniversary of one of the literary world's most prestigious prizes. But Rushdie, best known for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses which outraged many Muslims and prompted death... [read full story]                    


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