Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Salman Rushdie British-Indian author Salman Rushdie first gained international attention when his second novel Midnights Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. But it was Rushdies fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, that caused his fame to escalate. In 1989 Irans Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence based on Islamic law, against Rushdie, and he was forced into hiding for the next nine years. In some ways, his career has since been defined by that experience.
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