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Biography of Salman Rushdie
Name: Salman Rushdie
Birth Date: June 19, 1947
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Bombay, India
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer
Salman Rushdie
The Indian/British author Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 1947) was a political parablist whose work often focused on outrages of history and particularly of religions. His book The Satanic Verses earned him a death sentence from the Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.Although he was called a writer to watch after the appearance of his first novel and was awarded one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Europe for his second, Salman Rushdie became a household word because of the enemies his fiction made rather than the admirers. The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, earned him a death sentence from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then religious sovereign of Iran and spiritual leader to millions of fundamentalist Moslems worldwide.Born Ahmed Salman Rushdie on June 19, 1947, to a middle-class family in Bombay, India, Rushdie was educated in England and eventually received his M.A. from King's College, Cambridge. After a brief career as an actor …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…short story writer, filmmaker, critic and essayist, and social commentator.The threat of the death sentence that Ayatollah Khomeini imposed on Rushdie in 1989, meanwhile, remains in effect--the fatwa can never be lifted because Khomeini, the only man who could have rescinded it, died a few months after imposing it. But by 2001, post-Khomeini Iranian governments had made clear that Teheran no longer has any intention of sending death squads in pursuit of the author. Associated Works Midnight's Children (Book), The Satanic Verses (Book) Further Reading Contemporary Authors, volume 111 (1984), edited by Hal May, contains selected reviews of Grimus, Midnight's Children, and Shame, as well as a comprehensive selection of reviews and news stories surrounding The Satanic Verses. A lengthy interview by Gerald Marzorati appeared in The New York Times Magazine (November 4, 1990). In 1991 Rushdie published Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991, a kind of intellectual autobiography. Rushdie was mentioned in "People"Time(September 18, 1995)
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