Ahmed Salman Rushdie (1947-06-19) 19 June 1947 (age 76) Bombay, British India
Occupation
Writer
professor
Nationality
Indian (until 1964)
British (from 1964)[1]
American (from 2016)
Education
King's College, Cambridge (BA)
Genre
Magic realism
satire
postcolonialism
Subject
Historical criticism
travel writing
Spouse
Clarissa Luard
(m. 1976; div. 1987)
Marianne Wiggins
(m. 1988; div. 1993)
Elizabeth West
(m. 1997; div. 2004)
Padma Lakshmi
(m. 2004; div. 2007)
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
(m. 2021)
Children
2
Relatives
Natalie Rushdie (daughter-in-law)
Signature
Website
salmanrushdie.com
Sir Ahmed Salman RushdieCH FRSL (/sʌlˈmɑːnˈrʊʃdi/;[2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.[3] 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. 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.
After 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. 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. In 2022, a man stabbed Rushdie after rushing onto the stage where the novelist was scheduled to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.[4]
In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999.[5] Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature.[6] In 2008, The Times ranked him 13th on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.[7] Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015.[8] Earlier, he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the events following The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in April 2023.[9] He has married five times, four of which have ended in divorce.[10][11]
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^Taseer, Aatish (2 August 2019). "'That the world that you knew, and that in a way made you – that world vanishes. I don't think I'm alone in that,' says Salman Rushdie". openthemagazine.com. Open. Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
^Gelles, David; Root, Jay; Harris, Elizabeth (12 August 2022). "Live Updates: Salman Rushdie Is Stabbed During Speech in Western New York". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
^"Rushdie to Receive Top Literary Award Archived 5 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine." Chicago Tribune. 7 January 1999. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
^"Birthday Honours List – United Kingdom." The London Gazette 58358(1):B1. 16 June 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2012. Archived 16 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^"The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". Archived 19 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine The Times, 5 January 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2010. Subscription required.
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^"Time 100". Time. 13 April 2023. Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
^Bain, Ellissa (13 August 2022). "Who is Salman Rushdie's wife? Inside his four marriages". HITC. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^Descended from the gentry family LUARD, formerly of Byborough. See Burke's Landed Gentry 18th edn. vol. 1 (1965), p. 465, col. 2.
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