Salmon Rushdie

Sir Salman Rushdie
Rushdie at the 2016 Hay Festival
Born	Ahmed Salman Rushdie (1947-06-19) 19 June 1947 (age 70) Bombay, British India
Occupation	Writer
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Genre	Magic realism Satire Postcolonialism
Subject	Historical criticism Travel writing
Spouse	Clarissa Luard (1976–1987) Marianne Wiggins (1988–1993) Elizabeth West (1997–2004) Padma Lakshmi (2004–2007)
Children	2 sons
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, FRSL (/sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/;Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी, احمد سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.