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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, including Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981. He is a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, and his books have been translated into over forty languages. His new novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights will be published in September 2015.

Publications

Books

Young God

Katherine Faw Morris

£7.99

Books

Words Will Break Cement

Masha Gessen

£9.99

Books

Yesterday Morning

Diana Athill

£8.99

Books

Wolf in White Van

John Darnielle

£7.99

Books

Without A Hero

T.C. Boyle

£6.99

Books

Wild Child

Patrick Barkham

£16.99

Books

Who Paid The Piper?

Frances Stonor Saunders

£12.99

Books

Whose Story Is This?

Rebecca Solnit

£12.99

Books

Whiteman

Tony D'Souza

£8.99

Bestsellers

White Houses

Amy Bloom

£12.99

Salman Rushdie on Granta.com

Fiction|The Online Edition

Fiction|The Online Edition

Salman Rushdie on Sunjeev Sahota

Salman Rushdie

Here we begin an online series of former Best of Young British Novelists introducing writers...

In Conversation|The Online Edition

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Interview: Salman Rushdie

John Freeman & Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie’s involvement in Granta goes back to the third issue of the magazine, The...

Fiction|The Online Edition

Fiction|The Online Edition

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

The Perforated Sheet One Kashmiri morning in the early spring of 1915, my grandfather Aadam...

Fiction|The Online Edition

Fiction|The Online Edition

At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers

Salman Rushdie

‘The bidders who have assembled for the auction of the magic slippers bear little resemblance to your usual saleroom.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Is Nothing Sacred?

Salman Rushdie

‘I grew up kissing books and bread.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Poetry|The Online Edition

Crusoe

Salman Rushdie

‘Let me tell you, boyo, bach: I love this place’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Poetry|The Online Edition

6 March 1989

Salman Rushdie

‘Damn, brother. You saw what they did to my face? / Poked out my eyes. Knocked teeth out of place’.

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Eating the Eggs of Love

Salman Rushdie

'Forested mesas flanked the road to Matagalpa; ahead, the multiform mountains, conical, twisted, sinuous, closed the horizon.'

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

On Günter Grass

Salman Rushdie

‘Migrants – borne-across humans – are metaphorical beings in their very essence.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Outside the Whale

Salman Rushdie

‘For a man as truthful, direct, intelligent, passionate and sane as Orwell, ‘politics’ had come to represent the antithesis of his own world-view.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Fiction|The Online Edition

The Golden Bough

Salman Rushdie

‘The same face. At every interview the same bland features. It could not be - but it was. I was sure of that.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Fiction|The Online Edition

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

‘We all owe death a life.’