Sir Salman Rushdie

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Properties (53)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Author
gptkbp:adaptation gptkb:The_Moor's_Last_Sigh_(film)
gptkb:Midnight's_Children_(film)
The Satanic Verses (film)
gptkbp:associatedAct Cultural commentary
Free speech advocacy
Literary_activism
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Golden_Booker_Prize
Booker Prize
gptkbp:birthDate 1947-06-19
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Mumbai,_India
gptkbp:children gptkb:Lila_Rushdie
gptkb:Zafar_Rushdie
gptkbp:controversy gptkb:Fatwa_issued_by_Ayatollah_Khomeini
gptkbp:genre Fiction
Non-fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir Salman Rushdie
gptkbp:influenced Contemporary literature
Cultural criticism
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Nadine_Gordimer
gptkb:Franz_Kafka
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Haruki_Murakami
gptkb:Joseph_Conrad
gptkb:Gabriel_García_Márquez
Toni Morrison
Chinua Achebe
gptkbp:involvedIn Public speaking
Literary festivals
Writing workshops
gptkbp:knownFor Magical realism
Postcolonial literature
gptkbp:language English
Hindi
Urdu
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Midnight's_Children
gptkb:The_Golden_House
The Satanic Verses
The Moor's Last Sigh
gptkbp:occupation Essayist
Novelist
Professor
gptkbp:philosophy Postmodernism
Magical realism
Cultural hybridity
Postcolonialism
gptkbp:residence gptkb:London
gptkb:New_York_City
gptkbp:spouse Padma Lakshmi
Clarissa Luard
gptkbp:website https://www.salmanrushdie.com