Rushdie

American  

[ruhsh-dee] / ˈrʌʃ di /

noun

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

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Rushdie British  

/ ˈrʊʃðɪ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Salman Rushdie’s new story collection, ‘The Eleventh Hour,’ explores mortality through five inventive stories blending realism and magic.

From Los Angeles Times

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

“The Musician of Kahani” is one of five stories in a new collection by Salman Rushdie.

From Los Angeles Times

I was immersed in — or, more accurately, surrounded by — scenes from one of my favorite movies, a pivotal blockbuster whose artistic influence extends from David Lynch to Elton John to Salman Rushdie.

From Los Angeles Times

Before being sentenced, Hadi Matar stood and made a statement about freedom of speech in which he called Rushdie a hypocrite.

From Los Angeles Times