Salman Rushdie, an Anglo-Indian novelist, was born in 1947 at
Mumbai in
Maharashtra. He is also well-known as an essayist and critic. He writes primarily in English. Though born in India, he went to settle in Pakistan at the age of 17. He received his graduation degree from the King's College, Cambridge. 'Grimus', published in 1975, was his first novel. He was awarded the Booker Prize for his second novel 'Midnight's Children'. For his controversial work 'The Satanic Verses', Salman was sentenced to death (Fatwa) by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. Later, the order was removed by the Iranian government. Presently, Salman Rushdie lives in New York City.
