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Early life and education[edit] Rushdie [12] was born in Bombay on 19 June 1947 [13] during the British Raj, into an Indian Kashmiri Muslim family. [14] [15] He is the son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a Cambridge -educated lawyer-turned-businessman, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher.
May 25, 2024 · Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947, Bombay [now Mumbai], India) is an Indian -born British-American writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humor, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style.
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- Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues. He is known for his novels, i...
- Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on June 19, 1947.
- Salman Rushdie received the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children. The novel is a fable about modern India and became an unexpected critical...
- Salman Rushdie was knighted in 2007.
Apr 2, 2014 · Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. The only son of a wealthy Indian businessman and a school teacher, Rushdie was educated at a Bombay...
Feb 28, 2020 · Born: June 19, 1947 in Bombay, India (now Mumbai) Parents: Anis Ahmed Rushdie and Negin Bhatt. Education: King's College, University of Cambridge. Selected Works: Grimus (1975), Midnight’s Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), Quichotte (2019)
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Aug 12, 2022 · Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay - now known as Mumbai - two months before Indian independence from Britain. Aged 14, he was sent to England and to school in the town of Rugby, later gaining an...
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL ( / sʌlˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi /; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.
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Biography. Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947. He went to school in Bombay and at Rugby in England, and read History at King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights theatre company.
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