[DOC] [TLE] Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses | Books | The ... [PAR] Sep 14, 2012 ... A demonstration against The Satanic Verses, in Bradford, England, in 1989. ... 
The book contains criticisms of the prophet Abraham for his conduct towards 
Hagar .... ad hominem attacks; wasn't Rushdie a Muslim, after all, one of theirs? 
..... the internationally acclaimed Midnight's Children (1981) and the... [DOC] [TLE] Salman Rushdie - Wikiquote [PAR] 1.1 Midnight's Children (1981); 1.2 The Satanic Verses (1988); 1.3 Address at ... 
year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith.  and afterwards, to prove my new-
found ... Those who oppose the novel most vociferously today are of the opinion 
that ... It is made more concrete for him by the physical fact of discontinuity, of his
... [DOC] [TLE] 'Midnight's Children' Wins Special Booker Prize - The New York Times [PAR] Sep 21, 1993 ... ... Mr. Rushdie made no mention of his underground existence and only a 
passing reference to the controversy "The Satanic Verses" caused. ... In 1981, the 
winner was "Midnight's Children," the story of a boy, ... Mr. Rushdie's first novel "
was universally trashed, sold less than 900 ... Overnight it wasn't. [DOC] [TLE] Salman Rushdie: Fiction's Embattled Infidel - The New York Times [PAR] Jan 29, 1989 ... In Bombay or in any other city in that part of the world, there wasn't the climate for 
the ... Two sweeping, stylistically dazzling novels - ''Midnight's Children'' and ... 
The controversy - and it is not just England's controversy; the book has .... ''The 
Satanic Verses'' is his first novel to deal with London, with the city... [DOC] [TLE] Twenty years on: internalising the fatwa | spiked review of books [PAR] Nov 21, 2008 ... His reputation had been established by Midnight's Children, his sprawling, ... the 
Booker Prize in 1981, and went on to win the Booker of Bookers, as the .... The 
first myth is that the controversy over Rushdie's novel was driven by religion. It 
wasn't. It was a political conflict. The Satanic Verses first became an... [DOC] [TLE] Versed in Hiding - Chicago Tribune [PAR] Sep 21, 2012 ... Salman Rushdie, author of 'The Satanic Verses,' explores in his third-person ... 
year before the Satanic Verses controversy, faced similar calls for his own .... 
what happened wasn't funny at all, it would be quite funny," he says now. ... the 
Man Booker Prize in 1981 for his second novel, "Midnight's Children"... [DOC] [TLE] Midnight's Children (2012) - News - IMDb [PAR] Midnight's Children on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... ... voiced the 
narration and executive-produced Mehta's adaption of his 1981 book. ... The sci-fi 
element isn't quite a red herring, but by the time it flowers, we've already .... 
adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Booker prize-winning controversial novel of the 
same... [DOC] [TLE] Author Profile: Sir Salman Rushdie | The Gazette [PAR] Feb 17, 2013 ... CEDAR RAPIDS -- Sir Salman Rushdie never dreamed the book he ... his 
speech, he said he considers "The Satanic Verses" backlash to be ... "The way 
this thing came to an end, it wasn't like somebody just threw a switch one day. ... 
the screenplay that is bringing his 1981 novel, "Midnight's Children," to... [DOC] [TLE] salman rushdie | Reluctant Habits [PAR] And his fierce vision, which even the cogent Jonathan Rosenbaum called a ... For 
example, we are expected to buy into The Satanic Verses after two actors 
descend ... But maybe I detected, quite rightly as it turns out, that Rushdie was a 
man who ..... Midnight's Children is Rushdie's allegorical novel about India 
declaring its... [DOC] [TLE] Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] Published May 1st 1995 by Vintage (

Question: His 1981 novel "Midnight's Children" wasn't quite as controversial as "The Satanic Verses"
Answer: Salman Rushdie