Salman Rushdie

Biography

Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist born on June 19, 1947. His novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981, cementing his reputation as a leading voice in magical realism and historical fiction. The controversy surrounding his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to death threats and a fatwa calling for his execution, sparking international debate on censorship and religiously motivated violence.