Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist and essayist whose work blends magic realism with historical fiction and satire. He gained international acclaim with Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize, and has written widely on postcolonial identity, migration, and the interplay between Eastern and Western cultures. His 1988 novel The Satanic Verses provoked a major international controversy and a fatwa calling for his death; in 2022 he survived a violent attack and subsequently published memoir and fiction drawing on those experiences. Rushdie has held academic posts in the United States and the UK and has been a prominent advocate for free expression.