Rushdie, [Ahmed] Salman

British (Indian-born) author

wrote novels "Grimus" 1975, "Midnight's Children" 1981 (Booker Prize 1981), "Shame" 1983, "The Satanic Verses" 1988, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" 1990, "The Moor's Last Sigh" 1995, essay collection "Imaginary Homelands" 1991, short story collection "East, West" 1995

entered hiding after being subject of death fatwa issued by Ruholla Khomeini 1989