Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors.
Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize, and Best of the Booker on the 40thanniversary – Shame, The Ground Beneath her Feet, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Quichotte (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019).
He has also written a collection of stories, East, West; five works of non-fiction, including a memoir, Joseph Anton, and his most recent essay collection, Languages of Truth: 2003-2020.
In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and he joined the prestigious Companions of Honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in her Platinum Jubilee year.
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. He is a former president of PEN America.