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 He married the actress Padma Lakshmi, the hostess of "Padma's Passport," and dedicatee of his eighth novel, "Fury" (2001), on 17th April 2004. The late Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against him for the novel "The Satanic Verses" on 14th February 1989. He is currently completing a ninth novel. Prior to becoming a full time novelist, he enjoyed a successful advertising career as a copywriter with Ayer Barker in London until 1982.
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He married the actress Padma Lakshmi, the hostess of "Padma's Passport," and dedicatee of his eighth novel, "Fury" (2001), on 17th April 2004. The late Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against him for the novel "The Satanic Verses" on 14th February 1989. He is currently completing a ninth novel. Prior to becoming a full time novelist, he enjoyed a successful advertising career as a copywriter with Ayer Barker in London until 1982.
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Helped pick the phrase "naughty but nice" as an advertising slogan to sell cakes in 1970s Britain.Sentenced to death in 1989 for his book "The Satanic Verses" by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who proclaimed the book to be an insult to the Islamic religion. He has lived under police protection ever since. Since the Ayatollah's death, he has become a slightly more public person.He was awarded a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2007 Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honors List for his services to Literature.His book "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" was written for his son Zafar while he was in hiding, and they could not meet.According to the memoir "Joseph Anton", Keith Vaz MP promised Rushdie support over the phone, and then supported a protest against him.He is the father with Clarissa of Zafar Rushdie, born 1980, and with Elizabeth of Milan Rushdie, born 1999.Is a dual citizen of the U.K. and U.S.He is a big fan of video games.Enjoys comic books and rock music.He was awarded the Member of the Order of the Companion of Honour in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Platinum Honours List for his services to literature. He is an author.On August 12, 2022, he was stabbed in the neck and torso on stage at a lecture by a 24-year-old man. As a result of his injuries, he lost the use of one hand and the sight in one eye. No reason was given by his assailant Hadi Matar except that Rushdie had "attacked Islam".Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 379-388. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.New York City, New York (June 2007)Mentioned in Theresa Rebeck's play "Seminar". |
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Salman Rushdie |
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Actor,Writer,Producer (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actor,Writer,Producer |
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Actor,Writer,Producer |
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2024-07-01 04:52:57 |
| Height: |
5' 7' (1.70 m) |
| Biography: |
He married the actress Padma Lakshmi, the hostess of \"Padma\'s Passport,\" and dedicatee of his eighth novel, \"Fury\" (2001), on 17th April 2004. The late Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against him for the novel \"The Satan |
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Helped pick the phrase "naughty but nice" as an advertising slogan to sell cakes in 1970s Britain.Sentenced to death in 1989 for his book "The Satanic Verses" by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who proclaimed the book to be an insult to the Islamic religion. He has lived under police protection ever since. Since the Ayatollah's death, he has become a slightly more public person.He was awarded a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2007 Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honors List for his services to Literature.His book "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" was written for his son Zafar while he was in hiding, and they could not meet.According to the memoir "Joseph Anton", Keith Vaz MP promised Rushdie support over the phone, and then supported a protest against him.He is the father with Clarissa of Zafar Rushdie, born 1980, and with Elizabeth of Milan Rushdie, born 1999.Is a dual citizen of the U.K. and U.S.He is a big fan of video games.Enjoys comic books and rock music.He was awarded the Member of the Order of the Companion of Honour in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Platinum Honours List for his services to literature. He is an author.On August 12, 2022, he was stabbed in the neck and torso on stage at a lecture by a 24-year-old man. As a result of his injuries, he lost the use of one hand and the sight in one eye. No reason was given by his assailant Hadi Matar except that Rushdie had "attacked Islam".Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 379-388. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.New York City, New York (June 2007)Mentioned in Theresa Rebeck's play "Seminar". |
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I still refuse to call it 'Mumbai', as do many people who live there. It's not ancient like Delhi, with thousands of years of history. Essentially it's a city the British built because they thought the natural harbour would be useful to the navy. They reclaimed land to join together seven islands into what is now the peninsula of south Bombay, then they built a fort and the city grew around it.
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You can't be elected dog-catcher in America unless you're a Christian. For someone like me who spent a lot of his adult life in England and western Europe,it's probably the biggest single difference between the United States and the rest of the western democracies.
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Education changes the world. If you have generations of children being brought up in extremist madrasas to believe that that world view is the correct world view, then you create generations of people with built-in hostilities. Even if nothing had happened to exacerbate those hostilities, even if there had not been an Iraq war, the mindset of generations, particularly of young men, has been badly affected. You see that anti-semitism is taken for granted, and that a highly misogynistic world view is propagated, where the role of women is cast as secondary. And when you get to other issues like the treatment of religious minorities or sexual minorities, there's a fantastic hostility. So you're bringing up generations of bigoted children.
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[on a forced shutdown in Sri Lanka during the filming of 'Midnight's Children'] We lost two day's shooting and a lot of sleep. It's clear that there was somebody in the Iranian foreign ministry - I don't know who, and I don't know at how high a level it was, but someone - said to the Sri Lankan ambassador they they disapproved of the permission having been given [to film] and that it should be revoked. Fortunately Deepa [Mehta] as part of the process of planning the film, had personally been to see the president of Sri Lanka [as a project for]trying to develop the film industry in Sri Lanka, develop it as a location for filming, and that they saw this as being a kind of showcase for that. So they were very supportive of it.. The moment we got to the president's office he said, 'No,of course you must make your film'.
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[on how he managed to weather the storm over 'Satanic Verses'] Just by being bloody-minded. I think I'm tougher than I thought I was. One of the things...was that I just wanted to be myself... to keep writing books I wanted to write. I think, if you knew nothing about my life story, if you'd never seen anything about my life and all you had was my books to look at, there isn't a great rift in 1989. It's not that writing after that is radically different in the writing before that. I think [it] has its own continuity, and I've tried very hard to do that. |
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Actor,Writer,Producer |
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Won the 1981 Booker Prize for his novel 'Midnight's Children'.
Novel: "The Moor's Last Sigh," 1996.
(1975) Novel: "Grimus"
(1983) Novel: "Shame"
(1987) Novel: "The Jaguar Smile"
(1988) Novel |
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Padma Lakshmi (April 17, 2004 - 2007) (divorced)Elizabeth West (August 28, 1997 - 2004) (divorced, 1 child)Marianne Wiggins (January 28, 1988 - March 2, 1993) (divorced)Clarissa Luard (1976 - 1987) (div |
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