Salman Rushdie
Biography
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of 15 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 books have been translated into over 40 languages.
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.
A former president of PEN America, Rushdie was knighted by the Queen in 2007 for services to literature, and in June 2022 named to the exclusive Companion of Honour award in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours.
Salman Rushdie
