Rushdie's Midnight's Children was named the best novel to win the Booker Prize during the award's first quarter century.

Despite lingering death-threats, the author returned to the public stage with a determination to use his work as a platform for the exposure and denouncement of institutional violence and intolerance. It was not until a public pardon of sorts was issued by the Iranian government in 1995 that Rushdie felt he could safely emerge from hiding. Eventually, a fatwa, or death sentence, was issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruholiah Khomeini, calling for the execution of Rushdie. Devout Muslims, outraged by a perceived belittling of the Islamic faith within the novel, staged public demonstrations and placed bans on its importation. Rushdie gained international notoriety in 1988 with the publication of The Satanic Verses.

The latter received wide critical praise and earned Rushdie the Booker McConnell Prize. His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975, and was followed by Midnight's Children (1981). with honors in 1968, he performed for one year at an experimental theater and then worked as a freelance advertising copywriter during the 1970s. His education continued in England at the Rugby School and later at King's College, Cambridge. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONīorn on June 19, 1947, into a middle-class Muslim family in Bombay, India, Rushdie attended the Cathedral Boys' High School. While Haroun and the Sea of Stories is not among Rushdie's most well-known books, it is nevertheless viewed as an important piece of his canon as well as an engaging work of children's fiction. While the story is fraught with overt literary themes, it is nonetheless a fable that simultaneously presents a tender vision of a father-son bond and a compelling adolescent quest to repair a rift in that relationship. His only work for young readers, Haroun and the Sea of Stories has been viewed by critics as Rushdie's rebuttal of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's attempts to silence his examination of the Islamic religion in The Satanic Verses. After being forced into hiding to escape the ire of Islamic fundamentalists due to the controversy surrounding his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, Rushdie penned a fairy tale for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), as both a bedtime story for his son and as an allegorical response to his situation. Rushdie is among the best-known representatives of postcolonial fiction in modern British literature. The following entry presents commentary on Rushdie's young adult novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) through 2006. (Full name Ahmed Salman Rushdie) Indian-born English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, playwright, travel writer, and author of young adult novels.

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