Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He is born on 19. June
1947. He is the only son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie and Negin Bhatt, a teacher. Rushdie was
born in Bombay, India, into a Muslim family of Kashmiri descent.[10][11][12] He was
educated at Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, Rugby School, and King's
College, University of Cambridge, where he studied history.
Rushdie's first career was as a copywriter, working for the advertising agency Ogilvy &
Mather. It was while he was at Ogilvy that he wrote Midnight's Children, before becoming a
full-time writer.
His first novel, Grimus, a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and
literary critics. His next novel, Midnight's Children, catapulted him to literary notability. It is
regarded by many as one of the great books of the last 100 years. This work won the 1981
Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Boo...
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