Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie, FRSL, احمد سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 June 1947
CityMumbai, India
CountryIndia
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.