Author

Books by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist born in Bombay in 1947. He won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children (1981), and The Satanic Verses (1988) prompted a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini that forced him into hiding for nearly a decade. His other novels include Shame, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown, and Quichotte. Rushdie is known for a prose style that fuses magic realism, historical allegory, and postcolonial critique. He was knighted in 2007 and became a US citizen in 2016.