Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels - 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, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for hte Booker Prize) - 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 co-edited 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.
" Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come
out of the English-speaking world in this generation."
- The New York Review of Books
" The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . .
Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice."
- The New York Times
" In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one
with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of
perpetual storytelling."
- The New Yorker
" A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and
flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of
unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India
herself."
- Newsweek
" Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is
a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic
brilliance."
- The Washington Post Book World
" Pure story- an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical,
descriptively witty charge of energy."
- Chicago Sun-Times
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