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On this day, June 19, in 1947, Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Many know
him as “that guy who went into hiding” when a fatwā calling for his death was issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, due to his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses being considered by conservative Muslims as mocking their faith. Yet he has also been named a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France and has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature. He has also won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, two Author of the Year awards (Britain and Germany), a Hans Christian Andersen award for international children’s literature, and on and on. Today – no longer in hiding – he
turns 71.

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