Salman Rushdie
Highlights
- Death threat looms large on Salman Rushdie
- Had to hide from the world for about 10 years
- Eventually a fanatic attacked him with a knife
Salman Rushdie: Salman Rushdie’s pen has always been in the news. One of his novels is considered one of the best works in the world and in another novel the sentiments of a community were hurt by his words to such an extent that even after 44 years his anger did not subside and a fanatic attacked him with a knife. attacked. The famous English writer Salman Rushdie was attacked with a knife by a man named ‘Hadi Matar’ on stage during an event in New York on the night of 12 August and the incident reminded people around the world of the fatwa that was issued in the 80s. was released in the last years. It offered a hefty sum of money to the person who killed Rushdie.
Rushdie continues to be in danger of death
Throughout these years, Rushdie was in constant danger of death. He lived in the UK for several years and had been living in New York for the last two decades. The 75-year-old writer is in critical condition after the attack and has been admitted to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania. Talking about his early life, Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on 19 June 1947 in a Kashmiri Muslim family in Bombay. His father, Anees Ahmed Rushdie, studied at Cambridge and started his own business after initially practicing law. His mother Negin Bhatt was a teacher. He has three more sisters. Rushdie spent his childhood in Bombay and received his early education from the Cathedral and John Cannon School in South Bombay.
His first novel was ‘Grimus’
After that his father sent him to Rugby School in Warwickshire in England and he did his further studies at King’s College Cambridge. He did his Bachelor of Arts degree with History as a subject. After completing his studies, Salman Rushdie worked as a copywriter in an advertising company and during this time he started putting his unfounded ideas on paper. His first novel was Grimes, which did not get much attention, but the next novel made Salman Rushdie famous all over the world. The name of his novel was ‘Midnight’s Children’, which gained worldwide fame. He was also awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 for this novel.
Britain always respected Rushdie
More importantly, it was named by Booker as the best of all the winning works of the past four decades and was awarded the ‘Booker of Bookers’ award in 1993. Rushdie has always been respected as one of the best writers in Britain. He was also honored with the title of Knight (Sir) on the birthday of Queen Elizabeth on 16 June 2007 for his service to literature. After this creation, the continuation of Salman Rushdie’s writing continued and he became counted among the best writers of the world. A novel written by him in 1988 brought him into the limelight once again, but this time the reason was different. His work based on Islam, The Satanic Verses, was widely criticized by the Muslim community, and the late Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa to kill him in 1989, announcing a $3 million reward for the person who killed him. Gave.
Rushdie had to hide from the world for almost 10 years
While one of his works was called the best book in the world, his second work is considered one of the most controversial books in history and it has been banned in most countries around the world. Due to this fatwa, Rushdie had to hide from the world for almost 10 years to avoid the shadow of death looming over his head. However, during this time people got angry at the translators of Rushdie’s book and the bookstores selling the book were attacked. More than four decades after the book’s publication, it now seemed that Salman Rushdie was safe and that is why he started attending public functions. But the attack on him is proof that people are still angry with the words that came out of his pen and as soon as they got a chance, an attempt was made to silence them.
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