Salman Rushdie

Acting · Born 1947-06-19 · Mumbai, India

Biography

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.

Known for

• Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026)
• Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
• Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly (2024)
• Einübung ins Paradies - Nachdenken über 1989 (2019)
• Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)
• Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (2016)
• Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône (2015)
• Concerning the Bodyguard (2015)
• River of Fundament (2014)
• The Hitch (2014)
• Midnight's Children (2012)
• Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009)
• The Satanic Verses Affair (2009)
• La Traversée du désir (2009)
• Then She Found Me (2007)
• 365 Day Project (2007)
• Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass (2007)
• 9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York (2005)
• Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles (2003)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
• The Beatles Revolution (2000)
• Dirty Pictures (2000)
• In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (1999)
• Writers in Conversation: Edward Said with Salman Rushdie (1986)