![]() “How Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses Has Shaped Our Society.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 11 Jan. Rushdie was one of four children, and the only son. His father was expelled from the Indian Civil Services over a controversy regarding his birth date, but went on to become a successful businessman, settling in Bombay. His father, Anis Ahmed Rushdie, was a lawyer and businessman, and his mother, Negin Bhatt, was a teacher. ![]() Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947 at the time the city was still part of the British Empire. Notable Quote: “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”.Selected Awards and Honors: Booker Prize for Fiction (1981), Best of the Bookers (19), Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Golden PEN Award, India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award, Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, James Joyce Award, Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, Knight Bachelor (2007), Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature. ![]()
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