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
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’.
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.’
Poetry | The Online Edition
Crusoe
Salman Rushdie
‘Let me tell you, boyo, bach: I love this place, where green hills shelter me from fear.’
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 | Issue 31
Is Nothing Sacred?
Salman Rushdie
‘I grew up kissing books and bread.’
Salman Rushdie defends the act of writing novels.
Fiction | Issue 3
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
‘He resolved never again to kiss earth for any god or man.’
An extract from Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 3
On Günter Grass
Salman Rushdie
‘Migrants – borne-across humans – are metaphorical beings in their very essence.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 3
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.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 3
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.’
In Conversation | Issue 31
Salman Rushdie | Interview
Salman Rushdie & Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison interviews Salman Rushdie in 1990, one year after he was placed under fatwa.
In Conversation | Issue 3
Salman Rushdie | Interview
Salman Rushdie & John Freeman
‘I'm not quite the same person as the ‘me’ about whom the book is written.’
Fiction | Issue 7
The Golden Bough
Salman Rushdie
‘The same face. At every interview the same bland features. It could not be – but it was.’