Salman Rushdie is a writer whose works have been affected by his multicultural background of the East and the West. His western background caused him to contemplate the meaning of Islam.
Salman Rushdie is a writer whose works have been affected by his multicultural background of the East and the West. His western background caused him to contemplate the meaning of Islam. In “The Courter”, which appeared in East, West, Rushdie took a look at the conflicts raised by the west’s influence on his eastern culture. Eventually he came to reject the whole belief. His reflections on Islam and his western influence in general, are seen in his books. Some of his books led to controversies and one in particular is The Satanic Verses, which led to a death sentence.
Salman Rushdie was born in June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India. His father, Anis Ahmed Rushdie, was a businessman who attended Cambridge University in England. Ever since Rushdie was young, he wanted to be a writer. When he was just fourteen, he attended Rugby in England. At Rugby, Rushdie was teased for being Indian and lacked athleticism. Later he attended Cambridge just like his father and received a master’s degree in history in 1968. Originally, Rushdie was an actor, but then he worked as an advertising copywriter for ten years. During that time, he began to work on his writing career.