Salman Rushdie Net Worth, Age, Family, Wife, Biography, and More

Salman completed his college at King’s College, Cambridge. His Highest Educational Qualification is a Bachelor of Arts.

Salman Rushdie Awards and Achievement

• His novel ‘Shalimar the Clown’ received the prestigious ‘Hutch Crossword Book Award’ (2005).
• He was awarded the ‘Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award’ (2014).
• In 2019, he was honored with the ‘Swiss Freethinkers Award’.

 

Salman Rushdie Biography / Interesting Fact

• He is an Indian-born British-American novelist.

• He has worked as a copywriter for the advertising agency ‘Ogilvy & Mather’.
• Later he got to work with the musician ‘Ronnie Bond’.
• He wrote his first novel titled ‘Grimus’.
• In 1981, he wrote his second novel ‘Midnight’s Children’.
• He won the ‘Booker Prize’ for the novel ‘Midnight’s Children’.
• After the massive success of the novel ‘Midnight’s Children’, he wrote the third novel titled ‘Shame’.
• The novel ‘Shame’ won the best foreign book award.
• In 1987, he wrote a non-fiction book about Nicaragua called ‘The Jaguar Smile’.
• His most controversial work, The Satanic Verses, was published in 1988.
• In addition to books, he has published many short stories.
• He is the author of the novels like ‘The Enchantress of Florence’, ‘Luka and the Fire of Life’, and ‘The Golden House’.
• His novel ‘Shalimar the Clown’ was shortlisted for the ‘International Dublin Literary Award’.
• Rushdie was the President of the PEN American Center.
• He is the founder of the PEN World Voices Festival.
• He is a member of the advisory board of the organization “The Lunchbox Fund”.
• The organization provides daily meals to students of township schools in Soweto of South Africa.
• Rushdie was named distinguished writer in residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University.
• He is also a member of the advisory board of the ‘Secular Coalition for America’.
• He was honored with “Golden PEN Award”.
• Rushdie is a fan of the English football club ‘Tottenham Hotspur’.
• He was honored for his Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism at Harvard University.

 

Novel List

• Grimus
• Midnight’s Children
• Shame
• The Satanic Verses
• The Moor’s Last Sigh
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet
• Fury
• Shalimar the Clown
• The Enchantress of Florence
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
• The Golden House
• Quichotte

 

 

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FAQ

Who is Salman Rushdie?

Salman Rushdie is a Popular Novelist, from the United Kingdom. He is known as the author of the novels like ‘Midnight’s Children’, ‘Shalimar the Clown’, and ‘The Golden House’.

 

Which of his novels has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize?

“Midnight’s Children”, “Shame”, “The Satanic Verses”, “The Moor’s Last Sigh”, and “Quichotte”.

 

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