Salman Rushdie

British-Indian · b. 1947

Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children in 1981, then in 1989 a fatwa over The Satanic Verses forced him into nearly a decade of hiding under police protection. He survived a near-fatal stabbing on stage in 2022. His exuberant, myth-soaked fiction fuses Indian history, migration, and magic realism into a voice all his own.