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Salman Rushdie

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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( sul-MAHN RUUSH-dee; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. 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. 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. After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats because of what was seen by some to be an irreverent depiction of Muhammad. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salman Rushdie is the 378th most popular writer (down from 266th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from India (down from 28th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Writer.

Salman Rushdie is most famous for his controversial novel The Satanic Verses. The book was condemned by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Rushdie was forced into hiding.

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Among writers, Salman Rushdie ranks 378 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikhail Sholokhov, Jean Genet, Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Lucy Maud Montgomery. After him are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Margaret Mitchell, Appian, Karl May, Sayyid Qutb, and Constantine P. Cavafy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Salman Rushdie ranks 29. Before him are Carlos Santana, Iggy Pop, Herman Van Rompuy, Glenn Close, Robert Kiyosaki, and Ali Abdullah Saleh. After him are Takeshi Kitano, Gerd Binnig, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Paco de Lucía, France Gall, and Michael Levitt.

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In India

Among people born in India, Salman Rushdie ranks 57 out of 1,861. Before him are Hyder Ali (1720), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Sariputta (-568), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), Kabir (1440), and Ajatashatru (-500). After him are Alauddin Khalji (1266), Ronald Ross (1857), C. V. Raman (1888), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Salman Khan (1965), and Iskander Mirza (1899).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Salman Rushdie ranks 7. Before him are George Orwell (1903), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Kālidāsa (400), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Valmiki (-80), and Jaggi Vasudev (1957). After him are Ghalib (1797), Jim Corbett (1875), Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), and Meera (1498).

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