Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): In one of this author's novels, people drown while trying to cross the Arabian Sea by foot. In another, Boonyi betrays the title character by having an affair with Max Ophuls. This author of Shalimar the Clown wrote a novel which sees Joseph D'Costa's lover Mary Pereira play a trick on Mumtaz, the daughter of (*) Aadam Aziz. In this man's most famous novel,  mountaineer Allie Cone is killed by Gibreel Farishta, who, like Saladin Chamcha, had survived a plane explosion over the English Channel. For ten points, identify this author who wrote about Saleem Sinai in Midnight's Children and earned a fatwa for The Satanic Verses.
Output (English): Literature