Salman family biography books

Anglo-Indian author Salman Rushdie is one of the leading novelists of the twentieth century. His style is often likened to magic realism, which mixes religion, fantasy, and mythology into one composite reality.

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His somewhat flippant and familiar way of treating religion has provoked criticism, however, peaking in the Ayatollah of Iran's issue of a fatwa a death order in response to The Satanic Verses , his fourth novel. His father was a businessman, educated in Cambridge, and his grandfather was an Urdu poet. At fourteen, he was sent to England for schooling, attending the Rugby School in Warwickshire.

In , his family, responding to the growing hostilities between India and Pakistan, joined many emigrating Muslims by moving to Karachi, Pakistan. These religious and political conflicts deeply affected Rushdie, although he stayed in England to attend the King's College in Cambridge, where he studied history. While in school, he also joined the Cambridge Footlights theatre company.

Following his graduation in , he began working in Pakistani television. Later, he also acted with the Oval House theatre group in Kennington, England, and until , he wrote freelance copy for advertisers Ofilvy and Mather and Charles Barker. In , Rushdie published his first novel. Grimus , a science fiction story inspired by the twelfth century Sufi poem " The Conference of the Birds ," was largely ignored by both critics and the public.

Rushdie's literary fortunes changed in , when the publication of his second novel, Midnight's Children , brought him international fame and acclaim. The story is a comic allegory of Indian history, and tells of the children born after India's Declaration of Independence, each of whom possesses a magical power. In and , it was named the "Booker of Bookers," acknowledging it as the best recipient of the Booker Prize for Fiction in the award's history.

His third novel, Shame , was commonly regarded as a political allegory of Pakistani politics.