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Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels—including Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’s Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; and Quichotte—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction—Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line—and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

From https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/26491/salman-rushdie. 

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Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:

Salman Rushdie on The Quarantine Tapes: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-168-salman-rushdie

Ayad Akhtar about Rushdie, at 24:40: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-156-ayad-akhtar

“Salman Rushdie on the wonders of paradox”: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/salman-rushdie-on-the-wonders-of-paradox-5sfd5jdfc29

Languages of Truth: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616882/languages-of-truth-by-salman-rushdie/

“Salman Rushdie, the Art of Fiction No. 186”: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5531/the-art-of-fiction-no-186-salman-rushdie