Sir Ahmed '''Salman Rushdie''' (born June 19, 1947, [[Mumbai]]) is a living novelist in the [[English]] language. His most famous work, ''Midnight's Children'', depicts the independence and partition of India and Pakistan in allegorical form. It won the [[Booker Prize]] for the best novel of the year by an author writing in English in a [[Commonwealth]] country or [[Ireland]]. It subsequently won the 'Booker of Bookers' for the best of the first 25 winners of the Booker Prize. | Sir Ahmed '''Salman Rushdie''' (born June 19, 1947, [[Mumbai]]) is a living novelist in the [[English]] language. His most famous work, ''Midnight's Children'', depicts the independence and partition of India and Pakistan in allegorical form. It won the [[Booker Prize]] for the best novel of the year by an author writing in English in a [[Commonwealth]] country or [[Ireland]]. It subsequently won the 'Booker of Bookers' for the best of the first 25 winners of the Booker Prize. |