biography
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Rushdie, (Ahmed) Salman
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| lived:
| (1947– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Mumbai, W India, of Muslim parents. He emigrated to Britain in 1965, and studied at Cambridge. He worked as an actor and an advertising copywriter before becoming a writer, producing his first novel, Grimus, in 1975. He became widely known after the publication of his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981, Booker, James Tait Black prizes), a fantasia of Indian history in the 20th-c. This was followed in 1983 by Shame, set in Pakistan. The Satanic Verses (1988, Whitbread) caused worldwide controversy because of its treatment of Islam from a secular point of view, and in 1989 he was forced to go into hiding because of a sentence of death (fatwa) passed on him by Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran for blasphemy (officially lifted in 1998). His later books include a novel for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), a book of essays, Imaginary Homelands (1991), and the novels East, West (1994), The Moor's Last Sigh (1995, Whitbread), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), and Fury (2001). He was involved in the stage adaptation of Midnight's Children which premiered in London in 2003. |
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