The Satanic verses / Salman Rushdie.
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- ISBN: 9780670825370 (1988 Viking)
- ISBN: 0670825379 (1988 Viking)
- Physical Description: 546 pages ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: London : Viking, 1989.
- Copyright: ©1988
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Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnightâs Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moorâs Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Ãtranger; the European Unionâs Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages.
Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novelsâGrimus, Midnightâs 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 Moorâs Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nightsâand one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfictionâJoseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Lineâand co-edited 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.