Salman Rushdie

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essayist human magical realist writer novelist

Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist renowned for his magical realist works, particularly "Midnight's Children" and the controversial "The Satanic Verses."

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instanceOf essayist ⓘ
human ⓘ
magical realist writer ⓘ
novelist ⓘ
awardReceived Booker Prize ⓘ
surface form: Best of the Booker

Booker Prize ⓘ
Booker of Bookers ⓘ
Golden PEN Award ⓘ
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award ⓘ
James Tait Black Memorial Prize ⓘ
Knight Bachelor ⓘ
PEN Pinter Prize ⓘ
Whitbread Novel Award ⓘ
citizenship India ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
countryOfBirth India ⓘ
countryOfResidence United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1947-06-19 ⓘ
dateOfFatwa 1989-02-14 ⓘ
educatedAt King’s College, Cambridge ⓘ
surface form: King's College, Cambridge

Rugby School ⓘ
familyName Salman Rushdie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Rushdie
fieldOfWork literature ⓘ
postcolonial studies ⓘ
formerReligion Islam ⓘ
fullName Salman Rushdie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
genre magical realism ⓘ
postcolonial literature ⓘ
satire ⓘ
givenName Ahmed ⓘ
Salman ⓘ
hasChild Milan Rushdie ⓘ
Zafar Rushdie ⓘ
honorificTitle Sir ⓘ
influenced Arundhati Roy ⓘ
Mohsin Hamid ⓘ
Zadie Smith ⓘ
influencedBy Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ
Günter Grass ⓘ
Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
movement postmodernism ⓘ
notableEvent survived stabbing attack in New York in 2022 ⓘ
notableFor controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses ⓘ
exploration of migration and identity ⓘ
use of magical realism ⓘ
notableWork Haroun and the Sea of Stories ⓘ
Joseph Anton: A Memoir ⓘ
Midnight's Children ⓘ
Quichotte ⓘ
Shame ⓘ
The Enchantress of Florence ⓘ
The Ground Beneath Her Feet ⓘ
The Moor's Last Sigh ⓘ
The Satanic Verses ⓘ
occupation essayist ⓘ
novelist ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ
placeOfBirth Mumbai ⓘ
surface form: Bombay

Mumbai ⓘ
religion atheism ⓘ
residence New York City ⓘ
spouse Clarissa Luard ⓘ
Elizabeth West ⓘ
Marianne Wiggins ⓘ
Padma Lakshmi ⓘ
subjectOf fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Joseph Anton: A Memoir → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Midnight's Children → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Quichotte → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Shame → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
The Enchantress of Florence → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
The Ground Beneath Her Feet → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
The Moor's Last Sigh → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
The Satanic Verses → author → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Salman → birthName → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
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Milan Rushdie → childOf → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Salman Rushdie → familyName → Salman Rushdie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Zafar Rushdie → father → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Salman Rushdie → fullName → Salman Rushdie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Cambridge University → hasAlumnus → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
subject surface form: University of Cambridge
The Enchantress of Florence → hasAuthor → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Milan Rushdie → hasFather → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
The Arabian Nights → hasInfluencedAuthor → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Gabriel García Márquez → influenced → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Joseph Anton: A Memoir → mainSubject → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Milan Rushdie → notableFamilyMember → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Booker Prize → notableRecipient → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Golden PEN Award → notableRecipient → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Humanist of the Year → notableRecipient → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Zafar Rushdie → notableRelative → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Chatto & Windus → publishedAuthor → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Padma Lakshmi → spouse → Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Booker of Bookers → winnerAuthor → Salman Rushdie ⓘ