Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

(1947) essayist India

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[Wikidata] Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)...

About Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical 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 that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.

Known for:

The Satanic Verses

Notable works:

Midnight's Children

Awards:

Mythopoeic Awards|Booker Prize|Kurt Tucholsky Prize|Austrian State Prize for European Literature|James Tait Black Memorial Prize|Costa Book Awards|Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Aristeion Prize|Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award|Knight Bachelor|Crossword Book Award|PEN Pinter Prize|James Joyce Awards|Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes|Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service|National Arts Awards|Norman Mailer Prize|The British Book Awards|St. Louis Literary Award|Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres|Companion of Honour|Golden PEN Award|Honorary doctor of the University of Liège|Humanist of the Year|Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|Carl Sandburg Literary Award|Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature|honorary doctor of the University of Tromso|honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII|Emperor Has No Clothes Award|Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

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