Salman Rushdie — Indian Novelist born on June 19, 1947,

Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie, FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations... (wikipedia)