Sir Salman
Rushdie
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Salman Rushdie ,
1947-, British novelist, b. Bombay (now Mumbai, India).
He is known for the allusive richness of his language and the wide variety of
Eastern and Western characters and cultures he explores. His first novels,
including Midnight's Children (1981; Booker Prize; adapted for the
stage by Rushdie, 2003) and Shame (1983), incorporate the technique of
magic realism ; elements
of this approach can also be found in his later fiction. Parts of his
allegorical novel The Satanic Verses (1988) were deemed sacrilegious
and enraged many Muslims, including Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini , who in 1989
issued a fatwa sentencing Rushdie to death. Violence occurred in some
cities where the book was sold, and Rushdie went into hiding. From his
seclusion he wrote Haroun and the Sea of
Stories (1990), a novelistic allegory against censorship; East, West
(1995), a book of short stories; and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), a
novel that examines India's recent history through the life of a
Jewish-Christian family. The Iranian government ended its support for the fatwa
in 1998, but in 2004 an Iranian group offered a bounty for Rushdie's murder.
Rushdie's first post- fatwa novel, The Ground beneath Her Feet
(1999), mingles myth and reality in a surreal world of rock-and-roll celebrity.
Since then he has also written the novels Fury (2001), Shalimar
the Clown (2005), and The Enchantress of Florence (2008), a
romantic fantasy of 16th-century East and West, chiefly tales of Mughal India
and Renaissance Italy. In addition, his work includes numerous essays, many of
them included in Step across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
(2002). Rushdie was knighted in 2008, provoking condemnation from some Muslims.
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