Midnight
Salmon Rusdie is the author of seven novels: Grimus, Midnight's Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Prize), Shame (winner of the French Prix du Meillear Livre Etranger), The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for the Best Novel), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of the Writers' Guild Award), The Moor's Last Sigh (winner of the European Aristeion Prize for Literature) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. He has also published a collection of short stories, East, West; a book of reportage, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan journey; a volume of essays, Imaginary Homelands, and a work of film criticism, 'The Wizard of Oz'. Salman Rusdie was awarded Germany's Author of the Year Award for his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight's Children was adjudged the 'Booker of Bookers' the best novel to have won the 'Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also an Honorary Professor in Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages. for Zafar Rushdie who, contrary to all expectations, was born in the afternoon Contents The fisherman's pointing finger Movements performed by pepperpots
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