Salman Rushdie Net worth: $10 million
Salman Rushdie has an estimated net worth of $10 million. Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his literary contributions. The Times ranked him 13th among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 in 2008.
He faced several assassinations attempts and death threats following the publication of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Iran’s supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini.
Salman Rushdie Biography
Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British-American novelist of Indian origin. His work frequently combines magical realism with historical fiction and focuses on the connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, usually set on the Indian subcontinent.
Midnight’s Children (1981), Rushdie’s second novel, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was named “the best novel of all winners” on two occasions, marking the 25th and 40th anniversaries of the prize.
Several killings and bombings have been carried out by extremists who cite the book as their motivation, igniting a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence.
On August 12, 2022, a man stabbed Rushdie after storming the stage where the novelist was scheduled to deliver a lecture at a Chautauqua, New York event.
Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983. In 1999, he was named a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France.
Rushdie has lived in the United States since 2000. In 2015, he was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He previously taught at Emory University. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he released Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life following the events of The Satanic Verses.
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and torso as he approached the stage to give a talk on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institution.
