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Salman Rushdie

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1. ahmed salman rushdie, rushdie, salman rushdie

British writer of novels who was born in India; one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Salman Rushdie

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Indian-born British writer forced into hiding when his novel The Satanic Verses (1988) led the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini to demand his execution. His other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995).

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