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Salman Rushdie

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Born June 19, 1947 · Mumbai, India

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Biography

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.

Awards & recognition

  • Companion of Honour · 2022
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 2022
  • Humanist of the Year · 2019
  • Emperor Has No Clothes Award · 2018
  • Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes · 2015
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  • Norman Mailer Prize · 2015
  • Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award · 2014
  • PEN Pinter Prize · 2014
  • Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service · 2010
  • Golden PEN Award · 2010
  • Carl Sandburg Literary Award · 2009
  • National Arts Awards · 2009
  • St. Louis Literary Award · 2009
  • James Joyce Awards · 2008
  • Crossword Book Award · 2005
  • honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII · 2001
  • Honorary doctor of the University of Liège · 1999
  • Aristeion Prize · 1996
  • The British Book Awards · 1996
  • Costa Book Awards · 1995
  • Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · 1993
  • Austrian State Prize — European Literature · 1992
  • Kurt Tucholsky Prize · 1992
  • Mythopoeic Awards · 1992
  • Mythopoeic Fantasy Award — Children's Literature · 1992
  • Costa Book Awards · 1988
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 1983
  • Booker Prize · 1981
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize · 1981
  • honorary doctor of the University of Tromso
  • Knight Bachelor
  • Order of the Companions of Honour
  • Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
  • Booker Prize · 2019 · nominated
  • Locus Award — Best Fantasy Novel · 2009 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 2008 · nominated
  • Dublin Literary Award · 2007 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 2005 · nominated
  • Costa Book Awards · 2005 · nominated
  • Otherwise Award · 1997 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 1995 · nominated
  • Locus Award — Best Fantasy Novel · 1990 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 1988 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 1983 · nominated

Filmography12 titles

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000as Salman Rushdie

W1A

2014as Self

Orwell: 2+2=5

2025as Self (archive footage)

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

2016as Self

Bridget Jones's Diary

2001as Salman Rushdie

The Daily Show

1996as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015as Self

Dirty Pictures

2000as Self

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003as Self

Then She Found Me

2007as Dr. Masani

Midnight's Children

2012as Narrator (voice)

The One Show

as Self - Guest