He is the son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a Cambridge-educated lawyer-turned-businessman, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher. Biography Early life and family background Īhmed Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay on 19 June 1947 during the British Raj, into an Indian Kashmiri Muslim family. Rushdie was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.
In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the events following The Satanic Verses. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. In 2008, The Times ranked him 13th on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature. He was appointed a Commandeur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999. In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On 12 August 2022, a man stabbed Rushdie after rushing onto the stage where the novelist was scheduled to deliver a lecture at an event in Chautauqua, New York. Numerous killings and bombings have been carried out by extremists who cite the book as motivation, sparking a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence.
Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.Īfter his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL ( / s æ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i/ born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.
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