"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy." This Nobel-prize winner writes in a style of magical realism. Name that author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children.

Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, led to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issuing a fatwa against him in 1989. In the UK, he was placed under police protection as a result and was even knighted for his literary works, many of which are set on the Indian subcontinent.

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