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The old downtown area,” he said.ĭespite the controversy surrounding “The Satanic Verses, Rushdie’s second novel “Midnight’s Children” in 1981 made him a household name in the literary world. “Even the shape of Manhattan island is pretty much the same shape and size as what used to be called Bombay and what is now called South Bombay. in the 2000s and told the Village Voice that Manhattan reminded him of the city where he was born. However, Iranian groups and others have continued to push for his assassination.

“We put in what they call bomb-proof net curtains,” Ashton Hill, the architect who renovated the property told Insider.Īlmost a decade after the fatwa was first issued, the Iranian government issued a statement saying it would neither “support nor hinder” Rushdie’s assassination. He later lived in a safe house on London’s infamous “Billionaires Row,” which had bullet-proof glass windows, a safe room and rooms for six live-in police officers, Insider reported. The book is still banned in a number of countries around the world including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and India. There were calls for its immediate ban and the book was burned in multiple demonstrations in the U.K., Pakistan and elsewhere. Published in September 1988, “The Satanic Verses” caused immediate controversy around the world and among the Muslim community. According to GQ, he grew up in a “notionally Muslim house,” where religion open to “free debate rather than deep faith.” Rushdie was born in Mumbai, India, on June 19, 1947, and he later moved to the U.K. However, Rushdie, a British and American national who is of Indian descent, became a controversial figure for his written work because of its descriptions of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, garnering backlash from the former Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.īut how did Rushdie become a controversial figure? And how did he draw the ire of one of the most prominent Islamic figures in the Middle East? Rushdie and ‘The Satanic Verses’

It is also unclear what motivations prompted his attacker. Kathy Hochul (D) confirmed Friday afternoon that Rushdie is still alive, though no other details are known about his condition.