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    Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL (/sʌlˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism...
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    On August 12, 2022, novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua...
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    controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. It centered...
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  • Khomeini's 14 February 1989 death fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, after the publication of Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, British musician Yusuf Islam...
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  • The Satanic Verses (category Novels by Salman Rushdie)
    The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life...
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    after living together for five years, Lakshmi and novelist Salman Rushdie married. Rushdie stated that Lakshmi asked for a divorce in January 2007, and...
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  • grudges." "Rushdie and le Carré in literary spat: Fifteen years ago, the Guardian's letters page became a battleground for Salman Rushdie and John le...
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  • Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's...
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    the DW News, described her as "an obscure choice" compared to authors Salman Rushdie and Michel Houellebecq, despite being the favorite to win in 2021. French...
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    Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of "artificial" (other-made) country...
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    made in 1989, about the fatwa placed on author Salman Rushdie in response to the publication of Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. He has explained the...
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    In mid-June 2007, Salman Rushdie, the British-Indian novelist and author of the novel The Satanic Verses, was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth...
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  • the bounty against Salman Rushdie in regards to The Satanic Verses controversy. Fars promised $30,000 for the killing of Rushdie. In November 2020, the...
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    Zafar Rushdie, son of novelist Salman Rushdie, since June 2016. The couple's first child, a daughter, was born in October 2020. "Natalie Rushdie". gov...
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  • Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (category Books by Salman Rushdie)
    British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in April 2024 by Jonathan Cape. The book recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in 2022. It hit number...
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  • married novelist Salman Rushdie in London. On February 14, 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a Fatwa ordering Rushdie's assassination for...
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  • Victory City (novel) (category Novels by Salman Rushdie)
    Salman Rushdie published in February 2023. It is Rushdie's fifteenth novel. Ahead of publication, it was announced that due to the attack on Rushdie in...
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  • Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and...
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    crisis, his fatwa calling for the murder of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, and for referring to the United States as the "Great Satan" and the...
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  • Midnight's Children is a 2012 film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast of Satya Bhabha, Shriya...
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  • The Enchantress of Florence (category Novels by Salman Rushdie)
    Enchantress of Florence is the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008. According to Rushdie this is his "most researched book" which required...
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    of the Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993. Salman Rushdie praised the novel as Ishiguro's masterpiece, in which he "turned away...
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    (March 12, 1989). "Words for Salman Rushdie". The New York Times Book Review. Boog, Jason (July 17, 2009). "Salman Rushdie's Dinner with Thomas Pynchon –...
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  • Osama bin Laden). The case of Salman Rushdie provides an example of takfir that featured prominently in Western media. Rushdie went into hiding after Ayatollah...
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  • and not ticketed. In 2012, a number of events occurred related to the Salman Rushdie and the Satanic Verses controversy. A number of events created by the...
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    anti-Hindu comments and threats against Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin. and for making death threats against Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin. His remarks...
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  • back-and-forth of religious debate,[citation needed] but was rekindled by Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, which made headline news. The novel...
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  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories (category Novels by Salman Rushdie)
    Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's novel by Salman Rushdie. It is Rushdie's fifth major publication and followed The Satanic Verses (1988)...
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  • footballer Salman Mazahiri (1946–2020), Indian Muslim scholar Salman Raduyev, Chechen separatist warlord Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist Salman Shah...
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  • The Moor's Last Sigh (category Novels by Salman Rushdie)
    The Moor's Last Sigh is the fifth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. It is set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin. The title is taken from...
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