Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie
Gebore	Ahmed Salman Rushdie 19 Junie 1947 (1947-06-19) Moembaai, Britse Indië
Nasionaliteit	Verenigde Koninkryk
Alma mater	King's College, Universiteit van Cambridge
Beroep	Skrywer
Bekend vir	Midnight's Children (1981) The Satanic Verses (1988) The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) Shalimar the Clown (2005) The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
Eggenoot	Clarissa Luard, Marianne Wiggins, Elizabeth West, Padma Lakshmi

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (gebore 19 Junie 1947) is 'n Brits-Indiese romanskrywer en essayis. Sy tweede roman, Midnight's Children, het in 1981 die Booker-prys gewen. Sy kontroversiële vierde roman, The Satanic Verses, het internasionaal opspraak gewek toe die ajatolla Ruhollah Khomeini as gevolg daarvan 'n fatwā vir Rushdie se teregstelling op 14 Februarie 1989 uitgevaardig het.

Rushdie woon sedert 2000 in Amerika, waar hy by die Emory Universiteit werksaam was. Hy is verkies na die American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012 publiseer hy Joseph Anton: A Memoir, welke sy lewe beskryf in die nasleep en kontroversie oor The Satanic Verses.

Bibliografie

Romans (fiksie)

• Grimus (1975)
• Midnight's Children (1981)
• Shame (1983)
• The Satanic Verses (1988)
• The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
• Fury (2001)
• Shalimar the Clown (2005)
• The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015)
• The Golden House (2017)
• Quichotte (2019)

Bundels

• East, West (1994)
• Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947–1997 (1997, redakteur saam met Elizabeth West)
• The Best American Short Stories (2008, gas-redakteur)

Kinderboeke

• Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
• Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)

Essays en nie-fiksie

• The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987)
• "In Good Faith," Granta, (1990)
• Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981–1991 (1992)
• "The Wizard of Oz: BFI Film Classics," British Film Institute (1992)
• Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 (2002)
• "The East Is Blue" (2004)
• Joseph Anton: A Memoir (2012)