Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

male, 62 years old
al qaeda target, the West, the east, Western world, magical realism, ayatollah…postcolonialliterature, Post-colonial literature, Postmodern literature, Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...
Edward Said

Edward Said

male, deceased (2003)
postcolonialliterature, Postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, Princeton University alumni, Academic, Arab American…Post-colonial literature
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and C...
V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

male, 77 years old
Nadira Naipaul, postcolonialliterature, Trinidadian, Nobel laureate in Literature, Alumni of University College, Oxford, Indo-Trinidadian…Post-colonial literature, nobel prize in literature
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a...
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

male, 54 years old
British Pakistanis, postcolonialliterature, From London, novelist, Short story writer, Screenwriter…Post-colonial literature
Hanif Kureishi (born December 5, 1954) is a Pakistani-British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist and short story writer on topics of race,...
Mia Couto

Mia Couto

male, 54 years old
latin american literature, Ndau language, European African, white, creative writer, Ndau…postcolonialliterature
Mia Couto, pron. (b.5 July 1955 Beira, Mozambique), is considered this southeast African nation's foremost creative writer. His works in...
Bonny Hicks

Bonny Hicks

female, deceased (1997)
postcolonialliterature, cultural history, model, Plane crash victim, sumatra, Post-colonial literature
Bonny Hicks (January 5, 1968 - December 19, 1997) was a Singaporean catwalk model who gained her greatest notoriety for her contributions to...
Bahodir Sidikov

Bahodir Sidikov

male, 39 years old
postcolonialliterature, Postcolonialism, From Tashkent, tashkent, Post-colonial theory, caucasus…Post-colonial literature
Bahodir Sidikov (born July 19, 1970 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a journalist, consultant and researcher in Oriental and Central Asian Studies. He...