Sal⋅man [sal-muh n] , born 1947, British novelist and essayist, born in India. |
Rush·die  (rŭsh'dē) Indian-born British writer forced into hiding when his novel The Satanic Verses (1988) led the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini to demand his execution. His other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995). |
An Indian-born twentieth-century British writer of acclaimed novels such as Midnight's Children and Shame. He went into hiding after the publication of The Satanic Verses, a modern fable of good and evil, which prompted Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini to demand his execution.