Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature.
He was appointed a Commandeur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999. In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On 12 August 2022, a man stabbed Rushdie after rushing onto the stage where the novelist was scheduled to deliver a lecture at an event in Chautauqua, New York. Numerous killings and bombings have been carried out by extremists who cite the book as motivation, sparking a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.Īfter his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran.
His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL ( / s æ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i/ born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.
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