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
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
We are the storytelling animal.
There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.