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Life, Works
“Midnight's Children” AND “The Satanic Verses”
SALMAN RUSHDIESALMAN RUSHDIE
LIFE Born in Bombay in 1947
Indian and Bri t ish education
Studied: Cambridge and Rugby School
Actor and advert is ing copywriter
RUSHDIE WROTE Novels
Books for chi ldren
Collect ion of cr i t ical works
Collect ion of short stories
"THE SATANIC VERSES" Novel published in 1988
Interpreted as blasphemous
Ported upon Rushdie a Fatwa
FATWA UPON RUSHDIE Death sentence
Invoked in 1989
Forced into hiding
"MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN"
Novel published in 1981
Won the “Booker Prize”
Mixes: Imagination-History
Different stories, sty les, tradit ions
SALEEM SINAI Protagonist of “Midnight’s
Chi ldren”
Born: August 15 th, 1947
Special powers
Compares: Li fe-Jars of chutney
CREATED BY ROSSELLA RIZZOCREATED BY ROSSELLA RIZZO
CLASS 5ATCLASS 5AT
SCHOLASTIC YEAR 2012/2013SCHOLASTIC YEAR 2012/2013
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