Salman Rushdie

Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay on 19 June 1947 into a well-off Muslim family of Kashmiri origin. Sent in 1961 to Rugby School in England, he studied history at King's College, Cambridge, and then worked as an advertising copywriter in London. Targeted in February 1989 by a fatwa from the Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his death over another of his novels, he lived for years in hiding under police protection. He was president of PEN America from 2004 to 2006. Stabbed at a literary event in Chautauqua, in the United States, in August 2022, he lost an eye and the use of one hand.

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• NovelMidnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie · 1981Literature