Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed as "the best novel of all winners" on the 25th and 40th anniversaries of the prize. His notable works include Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands and Shalimar the Clown.

In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999. Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him 13th of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.