The Jaguar Smile is Salman Rushdie’s first, and to date only full length work of non-fiction (if we exclude his essay length pamphlet on The Wizard of Oz). It was written shortly after Rushdie, taking a break from the composition of The Satanic Verses, visited Nicaragua as a guest of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers (ASTC) - “the umbrella organisation that brought writers, artists, musicians, craftspeople, dancers and so on, together under the same roof” (The Jaguar Smile, 2^nd ed., 4). The occasion of his visit, Rushdie tells us, was the seventh anniversary of the “triumph” of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front) - when the Somoza d

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Published 13 October 2004

Citation: Teverson, Andrew. "The Jaguar Smile". The Literary Encyclopedia. 13 October 2004.
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