Salman Rushdie (born in Mumbai, India, June 19, 1947, age 64 years) was a British author of numerous books and resides in England. He was an important author in the late 20th century known for its unique blend of history and magical realism in his work. A total of 13 essay book has won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children in 1981 and the Booker of Bookers in 1993 for his novel. He was in hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini (Iranian leader) issued a fatwa in 1989 that ordered Muslims to kill him for insulting Islam in his book The Satanic Verses.
In the book he wrote that in 1988, Rushdie put God in Islam (Allah) as a character. Many countries ban this book. They found this book to attack Islam, and prohibits a number of bookstores menjualnya.Pemimpin Supreme Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran was a speech on the radio about Rushdie. He said that Rushdie has come out of Islam (apostate). Rushdie and the fatwa death was given the book's publisher. In 1989, the British government began protecting Rushdie. On March 7, 1989 Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain because of this problem. In 1990, Rushdie wrote an essay, trying to prove he was a believer in Islam.
His first wife was Clarissa Luard, with the 1976-1987 marriage and birth of a child named Zafar Rushdie. His second wife was an American novelist Marianne Wiggins named, who married in 1988 and divorced in 1993. Is his third wife Elizabeth West (1997-2004) with a son named Milan Rushdie. Since 2004, he married actress and model Padma Lakshmi India and later divorced in mid-2007.
On June 16, 2007, Salman Rushdie awarded with a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II [. Along with a CNN reporter and KGB double agent, he received a knighthood to mark the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II.
Iran criticized Britain's decision to bestow a knighthood on him and said that the conferring of insulting the Islamic world. Bestowal of knighthood title (knighthhood) has sparked a diplomatic quarrel with a number of countries. According to news agency IRNA, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Geoffrey Adams and stated that the decision to give the title is "provocative steps" which angered Muslims. Pakistan also summoned the British High Commissioner Robert Brinkley. About 20 activists Alliance Party of Islam Malaysia (PAS) protested in front of the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
Publication of books
Grimus (1975)
Midnight's Children (1981)
Shame (1983)
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987)
The Satanic Verses (1988)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981 - 1991 (1992)
East, West (1994)
The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
Fury (2001)
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction, 1992 - 2002 (2002)
Shalimar the Clown (2005)
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