Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947. He is the author of four other novels, Grimm, Midnight's Children, Shame and The Satanic Verses. He is also the author of The Jaguar Smile : A Nicaraguan Journey and two documentary films, The Riddle of Midnight and The Painter and the Pest. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the Booker Prize in 1981 and the Whitbread Prize for the best novel of 1988.
Imaginary Homelands, a collection of Salman Rushdie's essays, was published this year by Granta Books.