Salman Rushdie (1947-), Novelist

Sir (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie

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Author, novelist, essayist and sometime critic, Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (Mumbai). At the age of fourteen Rushdie was sent to school in England and continued his studies at King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. His novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981 and The Satanic Verses (1988) provoked the issuing of a Fatwa by Islamic Fundamentalists and sent the author into hiding. Has more recently written Fury (2001) and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995). Well known as a writer who examines the crossings of borders, language, geography and culture, he is now based in New York and London.