Life, Works

“Midnight's Children”  AND “The Satanic Verses”

SALMAN RUSHDIESALMAN RUSHDIE

LIFE Born in Bombay in 1947

Indian and Bri t ish education

Studied: Cambridge and Rugby School

Actor and advert is ing   copywriter

RUSHDIE WROTE Novels

Books for chi ldren

Collect ion of cr i t ical works

Collect ion of short stories

"THE SATANIC VERSES" Novel published in 1988

Interpreted as blasphemous

Ported upon Rushdie a Fatwa

FATWA UPON RUSHDIE Death sentence

Invoked in 1989

Forced into hiding

"MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN"

Novel published in 1981

Won the “Booker Prize”

Mixes: Imagination-History

Different stories, sty les,    tradit ions

SALEEM SINAI Protagonist of “Midnight’s

Chi ldren”

Born: August 15 th, 1947

Special powers

Compares: Li fe-Jars of chutney

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SCHOLASTIC YEAR 2012/2013SCHOLASTIC YEAR 2012/2013