Salman Rushdie has said that if authors are only allowed to write characters that mirror themselves and their own experiences, “the art of the novel ceases to exist”.
“If we’re in a world where only women can write about women and only people from India can write about people from India and only straight people can write about straight people … then that’s the death of the art,” the novelist said, according to the Times.
Salman Rushdie.
Speaking at a press conference at the Frankfurt book fair on Friday, the Indian-born British-American author also said that he was “filled with horror” at the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October.… Lês fierder