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
Cruelty is not a literary value.
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
I'm definitely post-something.