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Renowned author Salman Rushdie will join the faculty at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of the Faculty of Arts and Science. Over the next five years, Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” will teach and advise students in his new post as the journalism school’s Distinguished Writer in Residence.
In a Twitter post, Suketu Mehta, associate professor of Journalism at NYU, announced Rushdie’s appointment March 4. “Celebrated author Salman Rushdie is joining NYU’s journalism faculty. I’m really delighted!” he wrote. Rushdie in turn posted a tweet thanking Mehta. “You started this ball rolling Suketu. Look where it’s ended up! Thank you!”
An announcement emailed to NYU staff and faculty by Perri Klass, professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at NYU, and medical director of Reach Out and Read, described Rushdie as a brilliant writer and prominent public intellectual.
“Mr. Rushdie exemplifies the mission of the Journalism Institute – a center for research and teaching in the cultural hub and media capital that is New York City – and he will join our ranks of incredibly talented writers, reporters, producers, and critics, to engage and inform our local community in journalism and beyond,” the announcement said.
A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rushdie has received, among other honors, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the Writers’ Guild Award, the James Tait Black Prize, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes in both Britain and Germany, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, the Crossword Book Award in India, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the London International Writers’ Award, the James Joyce award of University College Dublin, the St. Louis Literary Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize of the Chicago Public Library, and a U.S. National Arts Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for “services to literature.”
In addition to his many essays and four non-fiction books (essays, memoir, and reportage), Rushdie is the author of a book of stories and eleven novels. He also holds honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American universities, is an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T, and University Distinguished Professor at Emory University.
This story originally appeared on News India Times.
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