| Names |
SALMAN RUSHDIE |
| Date of
Birth |
June 19, 1947 |
|
Identity |
British-Indian
novelist, essayist and fiction author |
|
Date-wise Events |
- 1981: He first achieved fame with his second novel,
Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize.
- 1988: His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses
(1988), provoked violent reactions from
radical Muslims.
- February 14, 1989: A fatwā
calling for his assassination was issued by Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, the then Supreme Leader of Iran, on this
day.
|
| General |
- His full name is Ahmad Salman Rushdie.
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