![Photograph by © Dan Callister www.dancallister.com Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie August 21, 2015 born 19 June 1947 is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against him, including a fatw� calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989, and as a result he was put under police protection by the British government. Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Britain's senior literary organisation, in 1983. He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States, where he has worked at Emory University and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses. Exclusive] [ Pictures] **© DAN CALLISTER. FEE MUST BE AGREED BEFORE USAGE. NO WEB USAGE WITHOUT APPROVAL. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED** Tel: +1 347 649 1755 Mob: +1 917 589 4976 E-mail: dan@dancallister.com Web: www.dancallister.com 3149 41st St, #3rd Floor, Astoria, NY 11103 USA Photograph by © DAN CALLISTER www.dancallister.com](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/books/Salman-Rushdie/salmanrushdie-large.jpg)
I had been speaking to Salman Rushdie for about an hour, in a bookshop café in New York, when a burly man in a baseball cap approached him.
“Are you Salman Rushdie?” he asked loudly.
“Yes,” said Rushdie – who, it’s true, was instantly recognisable. Over the years everything has become a little paler (greyer beard, lighter glasses) but the general outline is the same, and his gaze still contains a mixture of somnolent scepticism and impish joviality.
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“Are you Salman Rushdie?” he asked loudly.
“Yes,” said Rushdie – who, it’s true, was instantly recognisable. Over the years everything has become a little paler (greyer beard, lighter glasses) but the general outline is the same, and his gaze still contains a mixture of somnolent scepticism and impish joviality.
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