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
Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
India is my kid sister.
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.