Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels-- 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; Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize); and Victory City --and one...See more

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels-- 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; Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize); and Victory City --and one collection of short stories: East, West . He has also published five works of nonfiction-- The Jaguar Smile ; Imaginary Homelands ; Step Across This Line ; Joseph Anton ; and Languages of Truth --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. See less