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Salman Rushdie-Midnights Children

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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN Salmon Rusdie is the author of seven novels: Grimus,
Midnight's Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize and the James Tait
Black Prize), Shame (winner of the French Prix du Meillear Livre Etranger),
The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for the Best Novel),
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of the Writers' Guild Award), The
Moor's Last Sigh (winner of the European Aristeion Prize for Literature) and
The Ground Beneath Her Feet. He has also published a collection of short
stories, East, West; a book of reportage, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan
journey; a volume of essays, Imaginary Homelands, and a work of film
criticism, 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Salman Rusdie was awarded Germany's Author of the Year Award for his novel
The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight's Children was adjudged 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 an Honorary Professor in Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His
books have been published in more than two dozen languages.
BY SALMAN RUSDIE: Fiction Grimus Midnight's Children Shame The Satanic
Verses Haroun And The Sea Of Stories East, West The Moor's Last Sigh The
Ground Beneath Her Feet Non-fiction The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
Imaginary Homelands 'The Wizard Of Oz'
Salman Rushdie First published in Vintage 1995 14 16 18 20 19 17 15 13
Copyright (c) Salman Rushdie The right of Salman Rushdie to be identified as
the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of
trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise...

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