Salman Rushdie (7508 words)

Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (Universität des Saarlandes); Revised By: Catherine Pesso-Miquel (Université Lyon II)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.5: South Asian Diasporic Literature and Culture, 1800-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia)

Context

Dates

Life: 19-06-1947
Activity: 1975

Places

India (Birth)
United Kingdom (Primary Activity)
United States (Primary Activity)

Cultural Identities

Activities

Children's/Young Adult writer (Primary)
Journalist (Primary)
Novelist (Primary)
Story-writer (Primary)
Travel writer (Primary)

Other Resources

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Born on 19 June 1947, two months before India, the country of his birth, achieved her independence from British Rule, Salman Rushdie is, and yet is not quite, one of India’s Midnight’s Children. The newly installed Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, gave voice to the historical moment when he evoked the “tryst India had made with destiny” which would be “redeem[ed] [….] At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps”, allowing India to “awake to life and freedom”. Anglophone Indian Literature had to wait another thirty-four years for a writer such as Salman Rushdie to write Midnight’s Children (1981), a novel with which Rushdie was to make his …

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Citation: Ghosh-Schellhorn, Martina, Catherine Pesso-Miquel. "Salman Rushdie". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 May 2003; last revised 06 April 2017. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3889, accessed 05 April 2020.]

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