# Salman Rushdie

> A novelist whose fourth book made him the target of a fatwa and decades of death threats - threats that became real in 2022 when he survived a stabbing that cost him an eye.

*Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1947-06-19
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in India in 1947, Rushdie studied history at Cambridge and turned to fiction that wove magical realism through the faultlines between East and West. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was later named the best winner in the prize's history. Then came The Satanic Verses in 1988. Iran's supreme leader issued a fatwa calling for his death; the book was banned in 20 countries; killings and bombings followed, cited as motivated by the novel. Rushdie lived under protection, was knighted in 2007, moved to the United States, and taught at Emory and NYU. In 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution, he was stabbed onstage - he lost his right eye, suffered damage to his liver and hands, and survived.

## Fame
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- **Historical depth:** 29.5 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #131
- **Category rank:** #9

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- **WEBSITE**: https://salmanrushdie.com

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Fiction, #Screenwriting, #Movies, #United Kingdom, #Europe

## Timeline
- **2022** - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- **2015** - Norman Mailer Prize
- **2010** - Golden PEN Award
- **2009** - Carl Sandburg Literary Award
- **2001** - Honorary Doctorate from the University of Paris-VII
- **1993** - Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- **1992** - Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- **1981** - Booker Prize
- **1947** - Born

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