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
American literature has always been immigrant.
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.