SALMAN RUSHDIE was born in 1947 and has lived in England since
1961. He is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children,
which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize,
Shame, winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The
Satanic Verses, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel,
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which won the Writers’ Guild Award
and The Moor’s Last Sigh which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year
Award. He has also published a collection of short stories East,
West, a book of reportage The Jaguar Smile, a volume of essays
Imaginary Homelands, and a work of film criticism The Wizard of
Oz.
Salman Rushdie was awarded Germany’s Author of the Year Award for
his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight’s Children
was voted the "Booker of Bookers," the best novel to have won the
Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year, he was
awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is
also Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen
languages.
“Rushdie's writing resembles a horse at full gallop that will not
halt and wait. He creates an epic by turning his characters into
symbols and archetypes so that their histories are lived out at
several levels at one time-real and fantastic, metaphorical and
symbolic.... He is a writer of an epic-secular, irreligious,
irreverent, subversive, both comic and profoundly serious...in
short, an epic of our times.” —from the new Introduction by Anita
Desai
“Huge, vital, engrossing...in all senses a fantastic book.” —The
Sunday Times London
“In Salman Rushdie...India has produced a glittering novelist-one
with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of
perpetual storytelling. Like García Márquez...he weaves a whole
people's capacity for carrying its inherited myths-and new ones
that it goes on generating-into a kind of magic carpet...Saleem
Sinai...is dramatizing his past life as a prophecy, even
universalizing his history as a mingling of farce and horror and
matching it with thirty years of the Indian crowd's collective
political history.... As a tour de force his fantasy is
irresistible.” —V.S. Pritchett, The New Yorker
“One of the most important books to come out of the
English-speaking world in this generation.” —The New York Review of
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