Salman Rushdie
Nato: 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.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
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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"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"
— Associated Press
"Rushdie writes with a Dickensian exuberance, always full of humor as well as striking scornful, tragic notes"
— London Evening Standard
"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"
— Kirkus
"Rushdie’s return to magic, myth, and India’s ancient stories is dazzling"
— Esquire
"For Rushdie, as for the artists he writes about, the pen is a magician’s wand"
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