Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of the few authors with a truly global readership. Part of that is linked to the well-known controversy surrounding his novel The Satanic Verses (De duivelsverzen, 1988).

But it all began with acclaimed books. From 1980 onwards, Rushdie has left his mark on literature. A whole series of his novels made it onto the shortlist of the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Midnight’s Children (Middernachtskinderen, 1981) even won the “Booker of Bookers” award in 1993, chosen from among twenty-five former prize winners.

In his work, he is fascinated by the way a person’s background acts as a filter through which they experience “reality”. Rushdie himself, due to his British-Indian identity, has described feeling like a “bastard child of history”. Salman Rushdie is currently working on his new novel.