British-American novelist and essayist. Author of The Satanic Verses, which led to a fatwa calling for his death. A prominent defender of free expression.
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Salman Rushdie
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editorial · last refreshed 5/26/2026.Bio, position statements, and per-vote analysis are editorial work — see ROADMAP M4/M5 for the corpus expansion plan.