who is the writer of the satanic versess?

Answer 1

Salman Rushdie.

Someone else here posted that Rushdie lives in the UK but he is primarily in New York now. I believe the fatwa was dropped several years ago but he still has to be relatively careful. He is still hated by many.

Believe it or not, he married some Indian model, the one who hosted Bravo's Top Chef. Very, very weird.

Answer 2

yes, it was Salman Rushdie, and the fatwa has now been lifted for many years, although the effects of having spent years in hiding has had a very profound effect on Salman Rushdie and what he writes and how he writes it.
putting the fatwa aside.
I read a lot. I have read more than almost any other people I have met in my life. I meet a lot of people, too.
that being said, in my opinion Salman Rushdie is the finest living writer of English novels who is living today. I really recommend reading him.
His book "Midnight's Children" might be a good place for you to start. It is about a man who was born at the stroke of midnight January 1st 1948, at the exact moment that India gained its independence from Britain. It is the story of his life, and his life mirrors the history of India as an independent nation; it is a very good way to learn about the modern history of India.
For this book Mr Rushdie was given a special award called the Booker of Bookers. The Booker prize is arguably the most prestigious award given to English language novelists, and when they gave it to Rushdie they made it special and said "this is the best book we have ever given a Booker to.
But he has also written a lot of other great books. If you are looking for great modern lit., Salman Rushdie is a great place to find it.

Answer 3

Salman Rushdie wrote the Satanic Verses and now resides in the UK as there is a Fatawa (legal ruling in Islamic law) raised by the supreme leader of Iran(also a Shia scholar) for the death of Salman because many Muslim believe it is blasphemous against islam.

India banned the book and a few translators who were writing the book into other languages were stabbed. The Japanese translator was killed and the Italian translator was stabbed and seriously injured, the translator in Norway survived an attempt to assasinate him.

Answer 4

Edwin has it right it is Salman Rushdie. He wrote 9 novels and you can find an interview about him on www.pbs.org with bill moyers. Its pretty good interview i had to write an essay on it. Gunna give you a link to the transcripts, or if you want you can watch it online if your internet is better than dial up that is. LOL!!


Actually (Guy M) that is no longer true. I will quote right from the interview.

BILL MOYERS: It still strikes me as remarkable and a little scary to meet Salman Rushdie in the open on a downtown New York street corner. He is, after all, the man who spent ten years of his life underground, hiding from Islamic assassins. But there he was — mixing and mingling with scores of writers from around the world who were in New York at his invitation to talk about faith and reason. Rushdie welcomes the presence of kindred spirits. For a long time, he was without their company when he lost his freedom - for the sin of writing a book. This book — THE SATANIC VERSES. Published in 1988. It was a satire — based in part on the life and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed. Muslim fundamentalists erupted in protest when the novel appeared. Some governments banned it. They considered it blasphemy — an offense to the faith, an insult to the Prophet Mohammed. In Rushdie's adopted England they burned him in effigy. And around the world, copies of the book were set afire in protest. Then in 1989, the powerful Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa, calling on Muslims world-wide to kill the apostate Rushdie wherever they found him. Rushdie went into hiding, moving from safe house to safe house, appearing only sporadically in public, always listening for footsteps behind him. Finally, in 1998, with Khomeini dead, the Iranian government, seeking to normalize relations with Britain, backed away from the fatwa.

KAMAL KHARRAZI, IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention, nor is it going to take any action whatsoever to threaten the life of the author of THE SATANIC VERSES.

BILL MOYERS: Rushdie came out of hiding.

Answer 5

Salman Rushdie. For the record, Rushdie is a visiting professor of literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His last book, Shalomar the Clown, was beautiful and sad. It was also very topical.

Answer 6

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Answer 8

Of course Salman Rushdie.He even wrote mid night children

Answer 9

If you mean the book titled, "The Satanic Verses" the edwin above me is correct it was Salman Rushdie.
If you mean the literal verses that were written and then abrogated, then I'm not sure who wrote them, but Mohammed dictated them, and then later said that they should be abrogated.

Answer 10

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