Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels—including
Luka and the Fire of Life;
Grimus;
Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker);
Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories;
The Moor's Last Sigh;
The Ground Beneath Her Feet;
Fury;
Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence;
Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights;
The Golden House; and
Quichotte—and one collection of short stories:
East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction—
Joseph Anton,
The Jaguar Smile,
Imaginary Homelands, and
Step Across This Line—and coedited two anthologies,
Mirrorwork and
Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.
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