Salman Rushdie, author portrait
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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America and the recipient of the PEN Centenary Courage Award. His books have been translated into over forty languages. In 2023, he was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year.
The Eleventh Hour
Knife
Victory City
Languages of Truth
Quichotte
The Golden House
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
The Prophet's Hair
Joseph Anton
Luka and the Fire of Life
The Enchantress of Florence
Shame
The Satanic Verses
The Jaguar Smile
Shalimar the Clown
Midnight's Children
Grimus
Step Across This Line
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Fury
The Moor's Last Sigh
East, West
Imaginary Homelands
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie in conversation with Angela Ledgerwood | Random House Off the Page

Books

The Eleventh Hour
Knife
Victory City
Languages of Truth
Quichotte
The Golden House
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
The Prophet's Hair
Joseph Anton
Luka and the Fire of Life
The Enchantress of Florence
Shame
The Satanic Verses
The Jaguar Smile
Shalimar the Clown
Midnight's Children
Grimus
Step Across This Line
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Fury
The Moor's Last Sigh
East, West
Imaginary Homelands
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Satanic Verses

Media

Salman Rushdie in conversation with Angela Ledgerwood | Random House Off the Page

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