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.
Salman Rushdie on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Salman Rushdie on Sunjeev Sahota
Salman Rushdie
‘You open a book by a writer you’ve never heard of and a new voice leaps off the page and makes you listen.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 31
Is Nothing Sacred?
Salman Rushdie
‘I grew up kissing books and bread.’
Salman Rushdie defends the act of writing novels.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 31
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 | Issue 31
On Günter Grass
Salman Rushdie
‘Migrants – borne-across humans – are metaphorical beings in their very essence.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 31
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.’