Salman Rushdie





Salman Rushdie

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in Bombay, India
June 19, 1947

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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a novelist and essayist. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to protests from Muslims in several countries, some of which were violent. Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically. In June 2007, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to litera...more


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Joseph Anton A Memoir
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Average rating: 3.84 · 138,757 ratings · 11,111 reviews · 76 distinct works · Similar authors
Midnight's Children
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 43,854 ratings — published 1980 — 93 editions
The Satanic Verses
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 22,832 ratings — published 1988 — 35 editions
Haroun And The Sea Of Stories
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 12,750 ratings — published 1990 — 57 editions
The Enchantress Of Florence
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 8,492 ratings — published 2008 — 55 editions
Shalimar the Clown
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 6,668 ratings — published 2005 — 45 editions
The Moor's Last Sigh
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 6,247 ratings — published 1995 — 45 editions
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 6,077 ratings — published 1999 — 46 editions
Shame
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 4,735 ratings — published 1983 — 36 editions
Fury
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 4,537 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 2,785 ratings — published 2012 — 26 editions
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“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
Salman Rushdie

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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