Rushdie, Salman

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born June 19, 1947, he is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries. Faced with a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground. Rushdie was knighed for services to literature on 16 June 2007.