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Novelist Salman Rushdie in surgery after on-stage stabbing The Indian-born author has enjoyed great success during his literary career of five decades - but he has also faced death threats for some of the content in his work. It was Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, which became his most controversial book - and he was forced to go into hiding as a result of the backlash. Let's take a closer look at the 75-year-old writer's life: Born in Bombay - modern-day Mumbai - in 1947, he was educated in England and allowed his Muslim faith to lapse His acclaimed second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 His book The Satanic Verses sparked international turmoil and sometimes deadly protests following its publication in 1988. Some Muslims accused Rushdie of blasphemy Rushdie went into hiding for nine years after receiving death threats A year after the book's publication, Iran's then supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa -...