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Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman RushdieCH FRSL (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist and essayist. He is the author of Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize. His best known work was The Satanic Verses (1988), which made him a controversial author and caused him to have many death threats.[1]
Rushdie was born in India, but was sent to England to go to private school. He has lived in the United States since 2000. Rushdie is well known for writing stories which use "magic realism", which is similar to surrealism. This means that things in his stories happen which may be magic or impossible, such as falling from an aeroplane and floating down as gently as paper.[2] He often writes about India, and his stories often are set in different parts of the world.[3]
Fiction
[change | change source]In 1988, Rushdie wrote a book called The Satanic Verses. The book included a fictional story about some cha Padma lakshmi!