Sir Salman Rushdie

Sir Salman Rushdie’s novels, greeted always with anticipation and acclaim, include The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and The Enchantress of Florence.

His most recent book, Knife, is a #1 international bestseller that was named to the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year and became a finalist for the National Book Award. It’s a riveting, deeply personal account of surviving and healing after an attempt on his life. It’s been lauded across the media: The Guardian calls it “a courageous defence of free speech,” while The New York Times hails it as “a visceral, intimate book.”

His latest New York Times bestselling novel, Victory City, tells the epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence only to be consumed by it. It was named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, TIME, NPR, The Washington Post, and more. His previous work, Languages of Truth, is a collection of non-fiction essays from 2003-2020, which illuminate truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous and often searing prose.

For his masterwork of magic realism, Midnight’s Children, he won the prestigious Booker Prize, and later, the Best of the Booker. The novel has since been adapted to film by the Academy Award-nominated director, Deepa Mehta, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. As well, a new adaptation of Midnight’s Children is in development at Netflix, with showrunner Vishal Bhardwaj, whose work Rushdie calls “visually astonishing”.

Rushdie is also the author of the bestselling memoir Joseph Anton. His Luka and the Fire of Life is a children’s novel and a companion to Haroun and the Sea of Stories. His recent novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights was a New York Times bestseller, as was The Golden House.