Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist
Salman Rushdie is a novelist born in India who is both British and American. His second book of fiction, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981.
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Born 1947 in Mumbai, India
About Salman Rushdie
Sir Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay on 19 June 1947 and studied history at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1968. His fiction often mixes magical realism with historical fiction and looks at the links, breaks and migrations between Eastern and Western worlds. Midnight's Children, his second novel, took the Booker Prize in 1981. After The Satanic Verses appeared in 1988, he faced death threats and assassination attempts, among them a fatwa from Iran's supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini. In 2022 he survived a stabbing at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. In 2012 he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, which recounts his life after the controversy. Rushdie received a knighthood in 2007 for his services to literature, and he has lived in the United States since 2000. He taught at Emory University earlier in his career, and in 2015 New York University named him a Distinguished Writer in Residence.