For 10 points, name this author of The Satanic Verses.
A nonfiction work by this author describes "a portrait of a moment, no more, in the life of [a] beautiful, volcanic country". Another work by this author claims that "Realism can break a writer's heart", and in a discussion of a riot he notes, "Humiliate people long enough and a wildness bursts out of them". He published an essay-length pamphlet on The Wizard of Oz in addition to the aforementioned The Jaguar Smile and Shame, but may be better known for a work about the "Shah of Blah", Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and a work that begins with Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta falling out of an airplane. For 10 points, name this author of The Satanic Verses.
A nonfiction work by this author describes "a portrait of a moment, no more, in the life of [a] beautiful, volcanic country".
(Ahmed) Salman {Rushdie}