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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India in 1947.
Rushdie’s novels include Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, and the forthcoming Shalimar the Clown. His latest book is Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002.
Rushdie has won the Booker Prize, the “Booker of Bookers,” the
Whitbread Prize, the Writer’s Guild Award, the Aristeion Prize, and
major literary awards in Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Hungary.
He has served as honorary Vice-President, Member Trustee-at-Large, and
President of PEN American Center. He was also a founder and first
President of the International Parliament of Writers.
He lives in New York City. |
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Read Rushdie on the "Power of the Pen: Does Writing Change Anything?, featured in Issue 7 of PEN America: A Journal for Writers & Readers. >>More |
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