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

Mr. Rushdie lost sight in his right eye.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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

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 • Sep. 3, 2025

Salman Rushdie rides the magic carpet quicker than Qantas.

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen