Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is a British-American novelist born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1947. He studied history at King's College, Cambridge. Midnight's Children (1981) won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers. The Satanic Verses (1988) led to a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini and years of hiding. His many subsequent novels include The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), Fury (2001), and Quichotte (2019), shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rushdie survived a near-fatal stabbing in 2022.