Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (Hindi: अहमद सलमान रुशदी (Devanagari), lanati احمد سلمان رشدی‬ (Nastaʿlīq); born 19 Juin 1947) is a Breetish Indie novelist an essayist. His seicont novelle, Midnight's Children (1981), wan the Booker Prize in 1981. Much o his feection is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said tae combine magical realism wi historical feection; his wirk is concernit wi the mony connexions, disruptions an migrations atween East an Wast.

Sir Salman Rushdie lanati FRSL
Rushdie at the 2016 Hay Festival
Born	Ahmed Salman Rushdie (1947-06-19) 19 Juin 1947 (age 76) Bombay, Breetish Indie
Thrift	Writer
Ethnicity	Kashmiri[1][2]
Ceetizenship	Unitit Kinrick Unitit States[3]
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Genre	Magic realism satire postcolonialism
Subject	Historical criticism travel writing
Spoose	Clarissa Luard (m. 1976; div. 1987) Marianne Wiggins (m. 1988; div. 1993) Elizabeth West (m. 1997–2004) Padma Lakshmi (m. 2004; div. 2007)
Signatur	File:Salman Rushdie sign.jpg

His fowert novelle, The Satanic Verses (1988), wis the centre o a major controversy, provokin protests frae Muslims in several kintras, some violent. Daith threits wur made agains him, includin a fatwā issued bi Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader o Iran, on 14 Februar 1989.