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Salman Rushdie

(Ahmed Salman Rushdie)
India (b.1947)

Sir Salman Rushdie is the author of many novels including Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury and Shalimar the Clown. He has also published works of non-fiction including The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz and, as co-editor, The Vintage Book of Short Stories.

Awards: Nibbies (1996), Whitbread (1995), James Tait Black (1981), Booker (1981) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy

New and upcoming books

November 2025

The Eleventh Hour

Novels

   Grimus (1975)
   Midnight's Children (1981)
   Shame (1983)
   The Satanic Verses (1988)
   Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
   The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
   The Ground Beneath her Feet (1999)
   Fury (2001)
   Shalimar the Clown (2005)
   The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
   Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)
   Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015)
   The Golden House (2017)
   Quichotte (2019)
   Victory City (2023)

Collections

   East, West (1994)
   Birds of Prey (2010) (with others)
   The Eleventh Hour (2025)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Prophet's Hair (2016)

Anthologies edited

The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997 (1997) (with Elizabeth West)
Mirrorwork (1997) (with Elizabeth West)

Series contributed to

Best American Short Stories
The Best American Short Stories 2008 (2008) (with Heidi Pitlor)

Vintage Minis
Home (2017)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Salman Rushdie

A Very Indian Christmas (2024)
(Very Christmas)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (2016)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 2)
edited by
John Joseph Adams and Karen Joy Fowler

Lunatics, Lovers and Poets (2016)
Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare
edited by
Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia

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Awards

	1996 British Book Award Author of the Year
	1995 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : The Moor's Last Sigh
	1983 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
	1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Midnight's Children
	1981 Booker Prize : Midnight's Children

Award nominations

	2019 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Quichotte
	2009 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Enchantress of Florence
	2008 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Enchantress of Florence
	2007 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Shalimar the Clown
	2005 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : Shalimar the Clown
	2005 Booker Prize (longlist) : Shalimar the Clown
	1995 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Moor's Last Sigh
	1990 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Satanic Verses
	1988 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Satanic Verses
	1983 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Shame

Salman Rushdie recommends

Twist (2025)
Colum McCann
"Colum McCann gives us a powerfully realist novel of men at sea, literally, emotionally, and metaphorically. It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world. The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean."

My Beloved Life (2024)
Amitava Kumar
"This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling. A father, a daughter, a crime, a country being born, a migration, another country, a plague. 'We are in touch with a great astonishing mystery when we put honest words down on paper to register a life and to offer witness. Everything else is ordinary,' Kumar writes. His novel offers magnificent witness, and is not ordinary but extraordinary."

The Future Future (2023)
Adam Thirlwell
"Sex, revolution and death in eighteenth-century France and America, described in the language of the future, and featuring an astonishing visit to the moon. A dazzling performance, unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year."

The Unfolding (2022)
A M Homes
"A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, that feels terrifying close to the unfunny truth."

The Deceptions (2022)
Jill Bialosky
"The great Greeks - Odysseus, Herakles, Aphrodite, and, centrally, Leda and the Swan - circle around this powerfully written account of a woman in a kind of slow crisis and help her interrogate her marriage and desires. Then, in an extraordinary, explosive final act, a profound act of betrayal lifts the novel towards genuine tragedy. The Deceptions is a deeply felt and formally original tour-de-force."

I Was the President's Mistress!! (2022)
Miguel Syjuco
"Brilliant . . . Miguel Syjuco is his country's most original and unflinching literary voice."

Our Country Friends (2021)
Gary Shteyngart
"You can retreat from global catastrophe, but your private calamities will come and find you. Gary Shteyngart’s most moving novel, Chekhov and Boccaccio reimagined in America in the year of the pandemic, is a powerful fable of our broken time."

In the Country of Others (2021)
(In the Country of Others, book 1)
Leïla Slimani
"The world of this novel-Morocco after World War II, leading up to the revolt against French colonialism-is beautifully created. Personal life, social life, everyday life spring vividly from the page, and we feel deeply for the family caught in the middle of the conflict of history. An exceptional, powerful novel from this justly celebrated writer."

To Walk Alone in the Crowd (2021)
Antonio Muñoz Molina
"Molina is a true original."

Homeland Elegies (2020)
Ayad Akhtar
"Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable."

The Book of Anna (2020)
Carmen Boullosa
"Anna Karenina’s children and other fictions of Tolstoy’s—who know they aren’t exactly human—intertwine with Carmen Boullosa’s own fictions, who think they are real, and also with the Russian Revolution. A delightfully original and enjoyable book—Russian literature seen through Latin American eyes, and made into something new."

Long-Haired Cat-boy Cub (2020)
Etgar Keret
"I think Keret is a brilliant writer, entirely different from any other I know. He is the voice of the next generation."

Tyll (2020)
Daniel Kehlmann
"This is a brilliant and unputdownable novel. Kehlmann is the true inheritor of the German fabulist tradition that stretches back to the Brothers Grimm and even further, and in the legendary prankster figure of Tyll Ulenspiegel he has found his perfect avatar."

The Falconer (2019)
Dana Czapnik
"A deeply affecting tale of a young woman coming of age in a man's world."

Original Prin (2018)
Randy Boyagoda
"Original Prin is many things at once: a richly funny campus novel, a painfully humorous portrait of a modern family, an examination of a whole spectrum of religious faith from shaky to fanatical, and finally, in a climax of pitch-black comedy, a thriller too. Boyagoda writes with real panache and drive. An unputdownable book."

The Secrets Between Us (2018)
(Bhima, book 2)
Thrity Umrigar
"The women at the heart of this novel inhabit the harsh world of the urban Indian poor, and struggle separately and together for dignity and survival. Thrity Umrigar has written a moving human tale that vividly brings to life both the women and the city of Mumbai."

Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff (2018)
(Bob Honey, book 1)
Sean Penn
"It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it’s true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book."

Home Fire (2017)
Kamila Shamsie
"Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength. She understands a great deal about the ways in which the world's many tragedies and histories shape one another."

The Wildings (2016)
(Wildings, book 1)
Nilanjana Roy
"A delight to read. Eliot's Old Possum would have enjoyed these Practical Indian Cats."

The Year of the Runaways (2015)
Sunjeev Sahota
"All you can do is surrender, happily, to its power."

My Name is Radha (2015)
Saadat Hasan Manto
"The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story."

Revenge (2010)
Taslima Nasrin
"Taslima Nasrin has spoken out about the oppression of women under Islam, and what she's said needed saying."

The Pleasure Seekers (2010)
Tishani Doshi
"This is a captivating, delightful novel. I was totally engaged by Tishani Doshi's people and by their world, and the language often rises... to powerful metaphorical heights."

Eating Air (2009)
Pauline Melville
"A genuinely original writer."

Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand (2009)
Gioconda Belli
"Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand takes on nothing less than the creation myth of Western culture."

A Chapter of Hats (2008)
Machado de Assis
"The kind of humour that makes skulls smile."

Dark Matter (2002)
Philip Kerr
"A brilliantly innovative thriller writer."

Pop (2001)
Kitty Aldridge
"Kitty Aldridge is a real discovery, a writer of precision, delicacy and wit, and her first novel is a rare delight."

White Teeth (1999)
Zadie Smith
"Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is about how we all got here - from the Caribbean, from the Indian sub-continent, from the thirteenth place in a long-ago Olympic bicycle race - and about what here turned out to be. It's an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by WHITE TEETH, and often impressed. It has ... bite."

Secrets (1998)
(Blood in the Sun, book 3)
Nuruddin Farah
"One of the finest contemporary African novelists."

The Ministry of Hope (1997)
Roy Heath
"A beautiful writer."

Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990)
Jonathan Raban
"When Raban describes America and Americans, he is unfailingly witty and entertaining."

In Custody (1984)
Anita Desai
"A remarkable piece of work... A magnificent novel."

The White Hotel (1981)
D M Thomas
"A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force."

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