The honors included the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction).
Published in 1981, the book, which tells the story of India's complicated history through a pickle-factory worker named Saleem Sinai, was a critical and commercial success. Undeterred by the response, Rushdie kept writing and his second work, Midnight's Children, proved life altering. In 1975, Rushdie published his first book, Grimus, a fantasy and science fiction novel that received tepid reviews. There would just be conversation." International Acclaim Sit down here and tell me all about it.' And there would be no kind of attempt to ram something down your throat or criticize you. "You could sit there as an 11- or 12-year-old boy and say, 'Grandfather, I don't believe in god.' And he would say, 'Really? That's very interesting. His grandfather, a kind man and family doctor, was a devout Muslim, who said his prayers five times a day and went to Hajj to Mecca.īut his grandfather's embrace of the religion was not shrouded in intolerance, something that greatly shaped the young Rushdie. While Rushdie would later become a target of Muslim extremists, the religion was very much a part of his upbringing. There, he found work as a television writer but soon returned to England, where for much of the 1970s he worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency. from Cambridge, Rushdie briefly lived with his family in Pakistan, where his parents had moved in 1964. He went on to attend King's College at the University of Cambridge, where he studied history.Īfter earning his M.A. The only son of a wealthy Indian businessman and a school teacher, Rushdie was educated at a Bombay private school before attending The Rugby School, a boarding school in Warwickshire, England. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
Rushdie's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to accusations of blasphemy against Islam, forcing him to go into hiding for several years. The only son of a University of Cambridge-educated businessman and school teacher in Bombay, Rushdie studied history at King's College at the University of Cambridge. Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist.
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