Rushdie

American

[ruhsh-dee] / ˈrʌʃ di /

noun

Salman born 1947, British novelist and essayist, born in India.

Rushdie British

/ ˈrʊʃðɪ /

noun

Sir ( Ahmed ) Salman (sʌlˈmɑːn). born 1947, British writer, born in India, whose novels include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, Shame (1983), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1998), and Shalimar the Clown (2005). His novel The Satanic Verses (1988) was regarded as blasphemous by many Muslims and he was forced into hiding (1989) when the Ayatollah Khomeini called for his death; knighted in 2007

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Asked Thursday if he believed Matar was motivated to carry out the fatwa, Rushdie replied: "I had no knowledge of that. I have my suspicions," according to US media.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Rushdie said the brutal attack on him was an example of a "larger thing."

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Ditto for Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s encounter with wolves in the garden of his villa in Vermont, or Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa on Salman Rushdie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

As Rushdie puts it: “Death and life were just adjacent verandas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

Salman Rushdie rides the magic carpet quicker than Qantas.

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