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Salman Rushdie

출생: June 19, 1947 – Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist and essayist whose work explores migration, identity, religion, politics, and storytelling through satirical, often magical-realist fiction. He is best known for Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize, and The Satanic Verses. His books have been translated into dozens of languages worldwide.

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Salman Rushdie’s career has been shaped by movement across languages, countries, and forms. Born in Bombay on June 19, 1947, he grew up between Indian and British worlds, later studying at Rugby School and then at King’s College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in history. In London during the 1970s, he supported himself as an advertising copywriter while trying to become a novelist. His first book, Grimus, appeared in 1975, but his true breakthrough came with Midnight’s Children in 1981, a novel that fused national history with exuberant fantasy and won the Booker Prize, later also the Booker of Bookers and the Best of the Booker. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salman-Rushdie))

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I thought it odd that storytelling and literature seemed to have come to a parting of the ways
-The Art of Fiction No. 186
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It doesn’t tell us how to stop wars
-What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now
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We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are
-The Best American Short Stories
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We feel your absence—which, I suppose, is the ultimate testimony to the power of your words
-Salman Rushdie’s Response
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One of the novel’s principal images is that of the permeable frontier between the world of the imagination and the one we inhabit
-The Ground Beneath Her Feet: U2
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Even the least dynamic of us can be terribly seduced by the prospect of a little power
-Salman Rushdie on Being Free to Disagree
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Over time, the topicality fades, so if the work is to endure, it will do so only because of those literary values
-Salman Rushdie on Corruption and the Opioid Crisis
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I actually don’t want other people’s voices to sneak into my head
-Salman Rushdie’s Literary Inspirations

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"In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling"

The New Yorker

"Lucky for us, there are true storytellers and Rushdie is near the top of that list"

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"Rushdie writes with a Dickensian exuberance, always full of humor as well as striking scornful, tragic notes"

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"Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air"

The New York Times Book Review

"A graceful meditation on life and death that captures Rushdie at his most observant and lyrical"

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"Rushdie’s return to magic, myth, and India’s ancient stories is dazzling"

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"For Rushdie, as for the artists he writes about, the pen is a magician’s wand"

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