Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is a renowned British-Indian author known for his works of magical realism and historical fiction. He gained international fame with his novel 'Midnight's Children,' which won the Booker Prize in 1981. His fourth novel, 'The Satanic Verses,' led to controversy and a fatwa calling for his assassination, issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.