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The Satanic Verses
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The Satanic Verses is a work authored by Salman Rushdie. The project was initiated in 1980, with the first publication occurring in 1988. The text has been issued in 48 editions.
A 2023 movie adaptation of the subject is available in the movies mediatype. The work is referenced by 263 other encyclopedia articles.
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- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- First published
- 1988
- Editions
- 48
- Subjects
- General & Literary Fiction, East Indians, Didactic fiction, literary fiction, families, Islam, Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
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Internet Archive
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Followed by
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories
- Follows
- Shame
- Image
- Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses -1988- illegal Iranian edition.JPG
- Significant event
- The Satanic Verses controversy
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- publication date
- 1988-09-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
- inception
- 1980-00-00
- title
- The Satanic Verses
- Commons category
- The Satanic Verses
- form of creative work
- novel
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Encyclopedic overview
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel from the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of Quranic verses about three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Al-Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the satanic verses was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.
The book was a 1988 Booker Prize finalist (losing to Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda), and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year. Timothy Brennan called the work "the most ambitious novel yet published to deal with the immigrant experience in Britain".
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