Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie, (Kt.) FRSL (/sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/;Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी (Devanagari), احمد سلمان رشدی (Nastaʿlīq); born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989, and as a result he was put under police protection by the British government.
Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Britain's senior literary organisation, in 1983. He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945.
Podcasts:
Salman Rushdie
ALBUMS
- Shalimar the Clown (feat. narrator: Aasif Mandvi) released: 2005
- The Satanic Verses released:
The Satanic Verses
- Introduction
- Part 01 A
- Part 01 B
- Part 01 C
- Part 01 D
- Part 01 E
- Part 01 F
- Part 02 A
- Part 02 B
- Part 03 A
- Part 03 B
- Part 03 C
- Part 03 D
- Part 03 E
- Part 04 A
- Part 04 B
- Part 05 A
- Part 05 B
- Part 05 C
- Part 05 D
- Part 05 E
- Part 05 F
- Part 05 G
- Part 06 A
- Part 06 B
- Part 07 A
- Part 07 B
- Part 07 C
- Part 08 A
- Part 08 B
- Part 08 C
