A. Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has written novels, stories, and nonfiction. His books have been translated into over forty languages. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Midnight’s Children which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and was named the Best of the Booker – the best winner in the award’s 40-year history – by a public vote. Other novels include Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and The Golden House. 

Rushdie is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and works of non-fiction – Joseph Anton – A Memoir, Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and Step Across This Line. He is the co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing, and of the 2008 Best American Short Stories anthology. He has adapted his books for the stage, including Midnight’s Children by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center.

Between 2004 and 2006 Rushdie was President of PEN American Center and for ten years served as the Chairman of the PEN World Voices International Literary Festival, which he helped to create.

A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, Salman Rushdie has received, among other honors, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the Writers’ Guild Award, the James Tait Black Prize, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes in both Britain and Germany, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, the Crossword Book Award in India, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the London International Writers’ Award, the James Joyce award of University College Dublin, the St Louis Literary Prize, the Carl Sandburg Prize of the Chicago Public Library, and a U.S. National Arts Award.