Introduction to Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is British, but he was born and spent his childhood...

Rushdie grew up in a ................... family. Tolerance was a key feature of his family's approach to the religion.

At Cambridge University, Rushdie studied...

Before becoming a novelist, Rushdie worked in....

Rushdie's first novel, Grimus, was published in...

Rushdie first received international acclaim when he published .........., a novel that narrates key events in India's history and which won, among other awards, the Booker Prize.

Which novel led lead to accusations of blasphemy against Islam and resulted in a fatwa against Rushdie?

Due to the fatwa issued by Iran's supreme leader (the Ayatollah Khomeini) in 1989 after The Satanic Verses came out, Rushdie was forced into hiding. How many years did he spend in hiding?

Which novel became a U2 song with lyrics by Rushdie?

Rushdie wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories ....