He has also published works of non-fiction including The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz and, as co-editor, The Vintage Book of. His Luka and the Fire of Life is a children’s novel and a companion to Haroun and the Sea of Stories. His recent novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights was a New York Times besteller, as was The Golden House. Sir Salman Rushdie is the author of many novels including Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury and Shalimar the Clown.

He lived under the pseudonym Joseph Anton. Sir Salman Rushdie is also the author of bestselling memoir Joseph Anton. Salman Rushdie received death threats for decades before the New York attack The author, who was brutally attacked in New York. As well, a new adaptation of Midnight’s Children is in development at Netflix, with showrunner Vishal Bhardwaj, whose work Rushdie calls “visually astonishing”. The novel has since been adapted to film by the Academy Award-nominated director, Deepa Mehta, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His latest novel, Quichotte, was included in TIME’s list of 100 Must-Read Books of 2019, and was shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize.įor his masterwork of magic realism, Midnight’s Children, he won the prestigious Booker Prize, and later, the Best of the Booker. One of the most celebrated writers of our time, Salman Rushdie, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, became the target of a fatwa, issued by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran in response to the publication of The Satanic Verses.

He has written 14 novels, many of which have been translated in over 40 languages and received numerous accolades. These essays illuminate truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous and often searing prose. Rushdie, 75, was born in India and later grew up in England. Sir Salman Rushdie’s novels, greeted always with anticipation and acclaim, include The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and The Enchantress of Florence. His most recent work, Lauguages of Truth, is a collection of non-fiction essays from 2003-2020.

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