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Who is Salman Rushdie?

Salman Rushdie, in full Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, (born June 19, 1947, Bombay [now Mumbai], India), is an Indian-born writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humour, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style. His treatment of sensitive religious and political subjects made him a controversial figure.

Rushdie, whose father was a prosperous Muslim businessman in India, was educated at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge, where he received an M.A. degree in history in 1968. Throughout most of the 1970s he worked in London as an advertising copywriter. His first published novel, Grimus, appeared in 1975. Rushdie’s next novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), a fable about modern India, was an unexpected critical and popular success that won him international recognition. A film adaptation, for which he drafted the screenplay, was released in 2012. Continue reading from Encyclopedia Britannica

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Link to Victory City by Salman Rushdie in the catalog
Link to Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie in the catalog
Link to The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie in the catalog
Link to Quichotte by Salman Rushdie in the catalog
Link to The Golden House by Salman Rushdie in the catalog
Link to Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie in the catalog

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