Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Mather. It was while he was at Ogilvy that he wrote Midnight's Children, before becoming a
full-time writer.
His first novel, Grimus, a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and
literary critics. His next novel, Midnight's Children, catapulted him to literary notability. It is
regarded by many as one of the great books of the last 100 years. This work won the 1981
Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to
have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years. After Midnight's Children, Rushdie
wrote Shame (1983), in which he depicts the political turmoil in Pakistan. Shame won
France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book) and was a close runner-up for
the Booker Prize. Both these works of postcolonial literature are characterised by a style of
magic realism and the immigrant outlook that Rushdie is very conscious of as a member of
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