Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels - Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury and Shalimar the Clown - and one collection of short stories, entitled East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction -The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, Step Across This Line and, as co-editor, The Vintage Book of Indian Writing.
He has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was adjudged the Booker of Bookers, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.
He has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was adjudged the Booker of Bookers, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.
