What is Salman Rushdie?
{{refimprove}} {{Infobox writer |name = Salman Rushdie |honorific_prefix = Sir |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRSL|size=100%}} |image = Hayfestival-2016-Salman-Rushdie-1-cu.jpg |caption = Rushdie at the 2016 [[Hay Festival]] |birth_name = Ahmed Salman Rushdie |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|6|19|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Bombay]], British India (now [[Mumbai]], India) |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = {{Cslist|Writer|professor}} |citizenship = {{plainlist | * United Kingdom * United States (since 2016) }} |education = [[King's College, Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) |genre = {{flatlist | * [[Magic realism]] * satire * [[postcolonialism]] }} |subject = {{flatlist | * [[Historical criticism]] * [[travel writing]] }} |spouse = {{plainlist | * {{marriage|Clarissa Luard|1976|1987|end=div}} * {{marriage|[[Marianne Wiggins]]|1988|1993|end=div}} * {{marriage|Elizabeth West|1997|2004|end=div}} * {{marriage|[[Padma Lakshmi]]|2004|2 July 2007|end=div}}}} |children = 2 |relatives = [[Natalie Rushdie]] (daughter-in-law) |website = {{URL|salmanrushdie.com}} |awards = {{Indented plainlist | * {{awd|[[Booker Prize]]|1981|[[Midnight's Children]]}} * {{awd|{{lang|fr|[[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]]}}|1999|name={{lang|fr|Commandeur}}}} * {{awd|[[Knight Bachelor]]|2007}}}} |signature = }} '''Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CH|FRSL}} (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist and [[essay]]ist. He is the [[author]] of ''Midnight's Children'' (1981), which won the [[Booker Prize]]. His best known work was ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' (1988), which made him a controversial author and caused him to have many death threats.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19600879|title=Salman Rushdie: Satanic Verses 'would not be published today'|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|dat