Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie was born in 1946 in Bombay, India. He is the prize-winning author of seven novels, which include Midnight's Children (awarded the Booker Prize), Shame, The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel),  The Moor's Last Sigh and The Ground Beneath Her Feet . He has also published a collection of short stories East, West  and three works of non-fiction, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homeland and The Wizard of Oz, film criticism.  In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Rushdie’s life for the alleged blasphemies in The Satanic Verses.  Rushdie went into hiding protected by the British Government. In the intervening years, hit squads killed the Japanese translator of the book, wounded the Italian translator and the Norwegian publisher. In 1998, under pressure from Britain, Iran said it would not carry out the fatwa. “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” Salman Rushdie presently lives in New York.

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