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Salman Rushdie: books and prizes

Salman Rushdie is a novelist and essayist born in Bombay, now Mumbai, India. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. He was knighted for services to literature in 2007.^1,2,3

Works, in order of first publication

1. 1975Grimus^3,2novel
2. 1981Midnight's Children^3,1,2novel
3. 1983Shame^3,1novel
4. 1987The Jaguar Smile, A Nicaraguan Journey³non-fiction
5. 1988The Satanic Verses^3,1novel
6. 1990Haroun and the Sea of Stories³novel
7. 1991Imaginary Homelands³essays
8. 1994East, West³short stories
9. 1995The Moor's Last Sigh³novel
10. 1999The Ground Beneath Her Feet³novel
11. 2001Fury³novel
12. 2002Step Across This Line³essays

Prizes

1. 1981Booker Prize^2,1For Midnight's Children

Sources

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Salman Rushdie, Encyclopaedia Britannica (last updated 2026-09-10)
2. The Booker Prizes, Salman Rushdie, The Booker Prizes author page (accessed 2026-10-28)
3. eNotes, Salman Rushdie, Principal Works, eNotes literary criticism (accessed 2026-10-28)