Sir
Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt. (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-British
novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's
Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his early
fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical
realism mixed with historical fiction, and 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 (1988), was at the center of protests
from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent and
Rushdie faced death threats and a fatwā
(religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran. In response to the call for him to be
killed, Rushdie spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public
only sporadically, but was outspoken on the fatwā's
censoring effect on him as an author and the threat to freedom of expression it
embodied. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to
literature" in June 2007, which "thrilled and humbled" him. He
also holds the highest rank — Commandeur — in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in
France. He began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at
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