Salman Rushdie Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie (/sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/; Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी (Devanagari), Ahmad Salman Rushdie (Nastaʿlīq); British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much goes on. Among his works of fiction in the Indian subcontinent.He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his works are concerned with the many links, turmoil and migrations between eastern and western civilizations, and his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the focus of great controversy, and sparked protests from Muslims in many Countries Death threats were issued against him, including a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran, on February 14, 1989. Rushdie was appointed Commander of the House of Arts and Letters in France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the title Knight for his services to literature.In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth in its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States, where he has worked at Emory University and was elected a member of the Academy of American Arts and Letters. In 2012, Joseph Anton published: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the Satanic Verses controversy.

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