Author
Salman Rushdie
Birth Date
June 19, 1947
(78 Years)
Associated Country
United Kingdom
Salman Rushdie is a novelist and essayist known for his imaginative storytelling, blending of myth and history, and exploration of identity, migration, and cultural conflict. He was born in Mumbai (then Bombay) and later moved to the United Kingdom, where he was educated at the University of Cambridge.
Rushdie gained international acclaim with Midnight’s Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize and is widely regarded as one of the most important novels of the 20th century. His later novel The Satanic Verses (1988) sparked global controversy, bringing issues of free expression, religion, and censorship into sharp focus.
His work is known for its magical realism, rich language, and ambitious scope, often weaving together personal and political histories. Rushdie is considered one of the most influential contemporary writers in English, with a body of work that spans fiction, essays, and memoir.
Rushdie gained international acclaim with Midnight’s Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize and is widely regarded as one of the most important novels of the 20th century. His later novel The Satanic Verses (1988) sparked global controversy, bringing issues of free expression, religion, and censorship into sharp focus.
His work is known for its magical realism, rich language, and ambitious scope, often weaving together personal and political histories. Rushdie is considered one of the most influential contemporary writers in English, with a body of work that spans fiction, essays, and memoir.
Books
The Eleventh Hour 2025
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life’s final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work—India, England, and America—and feature an...
Knife 2025
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in...
Victory City 2024
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After...
Languages of Truth 2022
Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of...
Quichotte 2020
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star....
The Golden House 2018
When the mysterious Nero Golden arrives in New York with his three sons, he seems determined to erase his past and reinvent himself in America. Settling into a grand house in Greenwich Village, the...
When a storm unlike any other descends upon New York City, it marks the beginning of a strange and transformative era. The boundary between the human world and the realm of the jinn—supernatural...
When his father, the legendary storyteller Rashid Khalifa, falls into a deep, unnatural sleep, young Luka knows that only magic can save him. Determined to bring him back, Luka sets out on a daring...
The Satanic Verses 2008
Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to...
When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself ''Mogor...
The Jaguar Smile 2008
In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the terrain, and the poetry of “a country in which the ancient, opposing forces of creation...
Shame 2008
In a country that resembles Pakistan but is never named, two powerful families are bound together by politics, scandal, and hidden truths. At the center of the story is Omar Khayyam Shakil, a man...
Shalimar the Clown 2005
In Los Angeles, a former Indian ambassador is assassinated by his driver, a quiet man known as Shalimar. As the story unfolds, this shocking act of violence reveals its roots in a distant past,...
Fury 2002
Malik Solanka, a celebrated academic and dollmaker, has fled his life in London for a new beginning in New York City. But beneath his calm exterior lies a simmering, uncontrollable rage—one that has...
At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus...
The Moor's Last Sigh 1997
Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from...
Midnight's Children 1995
Saleem Sinai, the hero of *Midnight's Children*, is one of the thousand and one children born in India at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the dawn of its independence from British rule—the...
East, West 1995
In East, West, Salman Rushdie brings together a dazzling collection of short stories that explore the shifting boundaries between cultures, identities, and worlds. Divided into three sections—“East,”...
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as The Lord of the Rings, The Alchemist, The...