Biography of Salman Rushdie

The world's most controversial writer is Salman Rushdie. He was born in Mumbai to a Kashmiri Muslim family. From childhood, he was influenced by the western school of thought. He went to England and married an English writer Marion Wiggins.

In 1981, he received the Booker Prize for his book Midnight's Children'. In 1989, Iranian fundamentalists pronounced a death penalty on him for blaspheming Islam in the book "The Satanic Verses'. However, Iran dropped the death sentence on March 11, 1996, but he is still being hunted down.

In 1993, he was honoured with the Booker of Bookers prize. His book 'East-West is a collection of stories which he wrote during his exile in the European countries.

He has established a Writer's Resort in Himachal Pradesh for writers to visit and stay to write books work. Some of his works are Rome', 'The Ground beneath Her Feet', 'Fury', ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories', etc.