{"id":1207,"date":"2012-09-09T23:52:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2012-09-09T23:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:52:03","slug":"author-salman-rushdie-reflects-on-new-role-as-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/09\/author-salman-rushdie-reflects-on-new-role-as-screenwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Salman Rushdie reflects on new role as screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salman Rushdie has led a very full life: successful novelist at age 33, threatened novelist at 41, cultural icon today. Now, thanks to the persistence of director Deepa Mehta, the 65-year-old writer can add screenwriter to his list of credits. For Rushdie has done what many thought impossible, adapting his sprawling, Booker-prize-winning novel \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Midnight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that he wrote 31 years ago into a manageable screenplay.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/latimes.com.feedsportal.com\/c\/34336\/f\/625225\/s\/233e61e6\/mf.gif?resize=1%2C1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KPEMdzAwlmy8erpJ3j-rR97Wz78\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KPEMdzAwlmy8erpJ3j-rR97Wz78\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KPEMdzAwlmy8erpJ3j-rR97Wz78\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KPEMdzAwlmy8erpJ3j-rR97Wz78\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/latimes\/entertainment\/~4\/P3UJ0akwwiI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via L.A. 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