Salman Rushdie, Seattle Arts & Lectures Virtual Series: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 7:30 pm

Photo credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Streamed to you live from Benaroya Hall in Seattle!

From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie comes a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life.

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels—Luka and the Fire of LifeGrimusMidnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); ShameThe Satanic VersesHaroun and the Sea of StoriesThe Moor’s Last SighThe Ground Beneath Her FeetFuryShalimar the ClownThe Enchantress of FlorenceTwo Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight NightsThe Golden House;  Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize); and Victory City—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published six works of nonfiction—The Jaguar SmileImaginary HomelandsStep Across This LineJoseph AntonLanguages of Truth; and Knife (which was a finalist for the National Book Award)—and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN America, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

Q&A with Tessa Hulls

Pre-registration for this live streamed event is required. You must have a valid Lopez Library account to register.

REGISTER HERE by November 28. UPDATE: Registration is closed.

This series is brought to the community through the support of Friends of the Lopez Island Library.