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RUSHDIE, Ahmed Salman was born on June 19, 1947 in Bombay, India. Son of Anis Ahmed and Negin (nee Butt) Rushdie.
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92Y-Salman Rushdie (January 18, 2009)
(Salman Rushdie is the author of 10 novels including Midni...)
Salman Rushdie is the author of 10 novels including Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize and, in 1993, the "Booker of Bookers"; The Satanic Verses (1988), which won the Whitbread Book Award; The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), which won the Whitbread Book Award; and most recently The Enchantress of Florence. In 2007, the British Crown appointed him a Knight Bachelor for "services to literature." Licensed for personal use only. For group viewing, please call 212-415-5674 When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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East, West: Stories
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence.
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The Satanic Verses: A Novel
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One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.
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Shame: A Novel
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The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdies phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is not quite Pakistan. In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two menone a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasureRushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliationshamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel
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Youve reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. Its your turn for an adventure?yes, its finally here! So says Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka. The adventure begins one beautiful starry night in the land of Alifbay, when Lukas father, Rashid, falls suddenly into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one can rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka embarks on a journey through the world of magic with his loyal companions, Bear, the dog, and Dog, the bear. Together they encounter a slew of fantastical creatures, strange allies, and challenging obstacles along the way?all in the hope of stealing the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly treacherous task.
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Grimus: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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â??A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunderous and touching.â? â??Financial Times After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessingâ??and ultimately the burdenâ??of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and sets out to scale the islandâ??s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face-to-face with the islandâ??s creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity. Salman Rushdieâ??s celebrated debut novel remains as powerful and as haunting as when it was first published more than thirty years ago. â??A book to be read twice . . . Grimus is literate, it is fun, it is meaningful, and perhaps most important, it pushes the boundaries of the form outward.â? â??Los Angeles Times
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- The Moor's Last Sigh (Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-w...)
- The Golden House: A Novel
- Joseph Anton: A Memoir (NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco ...)
- Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks) (For all their permeability, the borders snaking across th...)
- Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) (Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nov...)
Ahmed Salman RUSHDIE
Edit ProfileEducation
Cathedral and John Connon Boys" High School, Bombay, Rugby School, England, King"s College, Cambridge.
Career
Writer 1969-1973; wrote first published novel Grimus 1973-1974. Participant-time advertising copy-writer while writing second novel 1976-1980. Executive Committee National Book League since 1983, Council Institute of Contemporary Arts since 1985, British Film Institute Production Board since 1986.
Honorary Spokesman Charter 88 1989.
Executive.
Achievements
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He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999.
In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature.
In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), burst upon the world, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the English-Speaking Union Literary Award in addition to the Booker Prize.
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The Moor's Last Sigh
(Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winni...)
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
(NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco...)
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92Y-Salman Rushdie (January 18, 2009)
(Salman Rushdie is the author of 10 novels including Midni...)
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Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
(Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nov...)
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Shame: A Novel
(The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The ...)
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East, West: Stories
(From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verse...)
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The Satanic Verses: A Novel
(One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever w...)
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks)
(For all their permeability, the borders snaking across th...)
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Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel
( Youve reached the age at which people in this family ...)
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Grimus: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
(â??A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and fu...)
- The Golden House: A Novel
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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The Moor's Last Sigh
Membership
Footlights revue, University of Cambridge 1965-1968. Institute Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association since 1981, Society of Authors since 1983. Camden Committee Community Relations 1977-1983.
Interests
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Married 1st Clarissa Luard in 1976 (divorced in 1987). Married 2nd Marianne Wiggins in 1988 (separated in 1989).
References
- Salman Rushdie (Writers and Their Work)
- Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (The Atlantic Critical Studies)
- Great Writers - Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie: Second Edition
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children - The Satanic Verses (Reader's Guide)
- Salman Rushdie: Critical Essays, Vol. 1
- Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation
- Salman Rushdie (Tamil Edition)
- Salman Rushdie: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
