Who was the recipient of the 1981 Booker Prize for their novel 'Midnight's Children'?
"a book a day – is absurd, as is the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer"".. The winner is usually announced at a ceremony in London's Guildhall, usually in early October. In 1993, to mark the prize's 25th anniversary, a """"Booker of Bookers"" Prize"" was given. Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", the 1981 winner, as ""the best novel out of all the winners."" In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a 'Best of Beryl' prize, for the author Beryl"
"a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and literary critics. His next novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), catapulted him to literary notability. 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. ""Midnight's Children"" follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children born at the dawn of a new and tumultuous age"
"and religions. No one genre dominates the entire novel, however. It encompasses the comic and the tragic, the real, the surreal, and the mythic. The postcolonial experience could not be expressed by a Western or Eastern, public or private, polarity or unity, any more than any single political party could represent all the people of the nation. ""Midnight's Children"" was awarded the 1981 Booker Prize, the English Speaking Union Literary Award, and the James Tait Prize. It also was awarded The Best of the Booker prize twice, in 1993 and 2008 (this was an award given out by the Booker"
"""If I hadn't had an operation, in a couple of years from now I wouldn't have been able to open my eyes at all,"" he said. Since 2000, Rushdie has ""lived mostly near Union Square"" in New York City. He is a fan of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur. Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th"
"Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988), was the subject of a major"
"levels of society, and therefore they could experiment more boldly and from a more secure position."" Kamala Markandeya is an early writer in IEL who has often grouped with the trinity of R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. The contributions of Manoj Das and Manohar Malgoankar to growth of IEL largely remains unacknowledged. Among the later writers, the most notable is Salman Rushdie, born in India, now living in the USA. Rushdie with his famous work ""Midnight's Children"" (Booker Prize 1981, Booker of Bookers 1992, and Best of the Bookers 2008) ushered in a new trend of writing."
"prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's ""best-loved novels"". It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books. ""Midnight's Children"" is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, born at the exact moment when India became an independent country. He was born with telepathic powers, as"
"1945) is another among a number of post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and named Booker of Bookers in 1993. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989), was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A House for Mr Biswas"" (1961) and ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize"
"Saleem Sinai Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel ""Midnight's Children"" by Salman Rushdie. His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland of pre- and post-colonial India, and newly created Pakistan and Bangladesh (East Bengal). He is born at the moment in time when India and Pakistan emerge from British rule and lives during the new tumultuous struggles that engulf the new nations following 15 August 1947. Sinai embodies these physical struggles and rifts during, and serves as a metaphor for, the spiritual, religious, political and intellectual traumas of the young"
"these indigenous and non-indigenous cultures on the Indian mind and in the light of Indian independence."" ""Midnight's Children"" has been called ""a watershed in the post-independence development of the Indian English novel"", to the extent that the decade after its 1981 publication has been called ""post-Rushdie"". During that decade, many novels inspired by ""Midnight's Children"" were written by both established and young Indian writers. Rushdie's innovative use of magic realism allowed him to employ the nation-as-family allegory and at the same time confound it with an impossible telepathy among a multitude of children from a multitude of languages, cultures, regions"
"Midnight's Children (film) Midnight's Children is a 2012 Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast of Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth Narayan, Ronit Roy, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Anita Majumdar and Darsheel Safary. With a screenplay by Rushdie and directed by Deepa Mehta, the film began principal photography in Colombo, Sri Lanka in February 2011 and wrapped in May 2011. Shooting was kept a secret as Mehta feared protests by Islamic fundamentalist groups. The film was"
"of the novel and the significance of its main character, calling ""Midnight's Children"" ""an extraordinary literary jewel (it was awarded the Booker of Bookers in 1993, and a host of other prizes), focusing on the fates of two children that are inextricably linked by the hour of their birth, literally 'handcuffed to history'"". Sinai is the product of extra-marital intercourse and is raised by a Muslim family after being exchanged at birth by his nurse, Mary Pereira. Over the course of the novel he goes from riches to rags. He has telepathic and other supernatural powers that are part of"
"and Angela Carter's ""The Passion of New Eve"". Joining Jonathan Cape in 1979, she published two Man Booker Prize winners, Salman Rushdie’s ""Midnight's Children"" and Anita Brookner's ""Hotel du Lac"". She was also Julian Barnes' editor for his first four novels, including ""Flaubert's Parrot"". In 1986 she became a founder director of Bloomsbury Publishing, where her list included Booker winners Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje and Nobel literature laureate Nadine Gordimer. In 1997 she was named Editor of the Year at the British Book Awards. She was a founder of the Groucho Club and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In"
"All other aspects were for the main committee to examine. The British Foreign Office, which has a permanent secretary on the main committee, announced that there had been no requests to gauge possible Muslim reaction to the knighthood. It was noted that Rushdie's 13 books have won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize for ""Midnight's Children"" in 1981, the Booker of Bookers prize, the Whitbread novel award (twice), and the James Tait Black memorial prize. PEN International had been a constant supporter of Rushdie being honoured, believing that awarding the author (born in India) would be ""seen as a positive"
"Bombay's tiny Zoroastrian community, and he grew up in Britain with a sense of cultural alienation similar to that of his character."" The performance was done by 20 actors who played the 60 or 70 roles comprising the complex storyline. Saleem Sinai Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel ""Midnight's Children"" by Salman Rushdie. His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland of pre- and post-colonial India, and newly created Pakistan and Bangladesh (East Bengal). He is born at the moment in time when India and Pakistan emerge from British rule"
"in the 1982 film ""Gandhi"". Dyer's scenes in the film depict the massacre as well as Dyer's testimony to the inquisition panel. A fictionalised account of Dyer's actions in Amritsar is contained in the 1981 prize winning novel ""Midnight's Children"", by author Salman Rushdie (see List of ""Midnight's Children"" characters) and depicted in Shashi Tharoor's 1989 ""The Great Indian Novel"". Sir Michael O'Dwyer, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab from 1912 to 1919, endorsed Dyer and called the massacre a ""correct"" action. Some historians now believe he premeditated the massacre and set Dyer to work. Many Indians blamed O'Dwyer, and while Dyer was"
"award category called either ""Children's Literature"" or ""Children's Books"". 1979: Katherine Paterson, ""The Great Gilly Hopkins"" 1978: Judith and Herbert Kohl, ""The View From the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures"" (ethology) 1977: Katherine Paterson, ""The Master Puppeteer"" 1976: Walter D. Edmonds, ""Bert Breen's Barn"" 1975: Virginia Hamilton, ""M. C. Higgins the Great"" 1974: Eleanor Cameron, ""The Court of the Stone Children"" 1973: Ursula K. Le Guin, ""The Farthest Shore"" 1972: Donald Barthelme, ""The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn"" 1971: Lloyd Alexander, ""The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian"" 1970: Isaac Bashevis Singer, ""A Day of Pleasure:"
"National Book Award and the Stonewall Book Award in 1981, but Boswell's thesis was criticized by Warren Johansson, Wayne R. Dynes and John Lauritsen, who believed that he had attempted to whitewash the historic crimes of the Christian Church against gay men. ""The Kindness of Strangers: Child Abandonment in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance"" (1988) is a scholarly study of the widespread practice of abandoning unwanted children and the means by which society tries to care for them. The title, as Boswell states in the Introduction, is inspired by a puzzling phrase Boswell had found in a"
"to Hamburg, Germany, in 1976. Later they divorced and remarried; he moved or visited back and forth. He married four times in all (one stepson). Carter won Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for ""The Sentinels"", published by Oxford University Press in 1981. The annual book award is judged by a panel of British children's writers and recognises the year's best book by an author who has not yet won it. For ""Under Goliath"" (Oxford, 1977) he was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. All of Carter's"
"Betsy Byars Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books. Her novel ""Summer of the Swans"" won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for ""The Night Swimmers"" (1980) and an Edgar Award for ""Wanted ... Mud Blossom"" (1991). Byars has been called ""one of the ten best writers for children in the world"" by Nancy Chambers, editor of the British literary journal ""Signal"", and in 1987 Byars received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement from the Catholic Library Association. Due to the popularity of"
"the role of Saleem Sinai while other roles were played by Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth Narayan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Shahana Goswami, Anita Majumdar and Darsheel Safary. The film was premiered in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival (2012-09-09) and the Vancouver International Film Festival (2012-09-27). For an academic overview of the adaptations of ""Midnight's Children"", see Mendes and Kuortti (2016). In June 2018 streaming service Netflix announced that it is adapting 'Midnight's Children' as an original Netflix TV series. Midnight's Children Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by British Indian author"
"Midnight (1982 film) Midnight (also released as Backwoods Massacre) is a 1982 American exploitation horror film directed by John A. Russo and starring Melanie Verlin, Lawrence Tierney, and John Amplas. It is based on Russo's 1980 novel of the same name, published by Pocket Books. It follows a female hitchhiker en route to San Francisco who finds herself at the mercy of a backwoods Satanic cult in Pennsylvania who sacrifice young women in an insane attempt to try and resurrect the rotting corpse of their dead mother. The film was shot on location outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and features special effects"
"novel for children was ""The Cabin Faced West"" (1958). Her autobiography ""Homesick, My Own Story"" (1982) won a National Book Award for Young People's Literature in the Children's Fiction category and was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal. The latter American Library Association award recognizes the year's best American children's book but almost always goes to fiction. Later she won two annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for children's nonfiction. In 1986, she received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the ALA, which recognizes a living author or illustrator, whose books, published in the United States, have made ""a substantial and"
"celebrates ""excellence in writing for children and to emphasize its continuing vital importance."" The lecturers are children's literature authors, scholars or critics, and most of the lectures are published online. Philippa Pearce Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time-slip fantasy novel ""Tom's Midnight Garden"", which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times. The youngest of four children of"
"""The Midnight Man"" and ""Blue John"" were later published as picture books. Doherty's daughter, Sally, has also set ""The Midnight Man"" for spoken and singing voices, flute, clarinet, cello and harp. Doherty won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, both for ""Granny Was a Buffer Girl"" (Methuen, 1986) and for ""Dear Nobody"" (Hamilton, 1991). She was also a highly commended runner-up for ""Willa and Old Miss Annie"" (1994). No one has won three Carnegies. ""Granny was a Buffer Girl"" was also a runner up for the 1988 Boston"
"children's literature to figure emotional realism in the narratives of her characters, often children in middle class families. She won the 1981 National Book Award for ""Ramona and Her Mother"" and the 1984 Newbery Medal for ""Dear Mr. Henshaw"". For her lifetime contributions to American literature, Cleary received the National Medal of Arts, recognition as a Library of Congress Living Legend, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the Association for Library Service to Children. The Beverly Cleary School, a public school in Portland, was named after her, and several statues of her most famous characters were erected in Grant"
"Night Strangers,"" was published in 2011. It's a ghost story and received excellent critical reviews and drew comparisons to the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Atwood, Alice Sebold, Stephen King, and Ira Levin. But reader response was mixed, with some readers frustrated with the ending and Bohjalian's use of the second person for parts of the narration. The book won the New England Society Book Award for fiction in April 2012. His ""The Sandcastle Girls"" (2012) is about the Armenian Genocide and its century-long denial by Turkey. The novel includes two stories in one: the story of Elizabeth Endicott and"
"adopted a daughter, named Jane after Jane Austen. Garfield became a successful children's writer in the 1960s. Her own first book published was ""The Haunting of Cassie Palmer"", from Methuen in 1980 when she was 56 years old. She followed ""The Haunting"" with ""The Stonewalkers"" (1981) and about twenty others. ""The Cuckoo Sister"" (1985) and ""The Monster Garden"" (1988) are her two most widely held works as catalogued by WorldCat libraries. Awards Runners-up Listings Vivien Alcock Vivien Alcock (23 September 1924 – 11 October 2003) was an English writer of children's books. Alcock was born in Worthing, now in West"
"shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival. The film was also a nominee for Best Picture and seven other categories at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, winning two awards. In 2008, Mehta and Salman Rushdie decided to collaborate on a film together. At first Mehta wanted to adapt his novel ""Shalimar the Clown"", but she eventually decided on ""Midnight's Children"" instead. Rushdie spent the next two years paring down the 600-page book into a 130-page script. Rushdie told the BBC in an interview that he sold the rights to"
"ugly politics, there is, in this Lawrence, and vibrantly so, a powerful and radical celebration of dignity in resistance within working-class culture in industrial class-societies; as well as a dark, tortured cry against the waste of human resources such societies require as part of their logic. It is no bad thing to be saying when unemployment has reached over three million.” Sons and Lovers (1981 TV serial) Sons and Lovers is a 1981 BBC television serial based on the D. H. Lawrence book ""Sons and Lovers"". It starred Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson, Lynn Dearth and Leonie Mellinger. It"
"pilots and live on an airstrip in Seneca, South Carolina, the bottom floor of their house being a hangar. Daughters Betsy Duffey and Laurie Myers are also children's writers, and the three of them are currently (as of February 2009) working on their fourth book together. Betsy Byars Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books. Her novel ""Summer of the Swans"" won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for ""The Night Swimmers"" (1980) and an Edgar Award for ""Wanted ... Mud Blossom"" (1991)."
"unravels Rosa's fate, saying that it is ""a tribute to her art"". Despite being banned in South Africa, ""Burger's Daughter"" won the 1980 Central News Agency (CNA) Literary Award, a prominent literary award in that country. In 1991 Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her works of ""intense immediacy"" and ""extremely complicated personal and social relationships in her environment"". During the award ceremony speech by Sture Allén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, ""Burger's Daughter"" was cited as one of Gordimer's novels in which ""artistry and morality fuse"". In 2001 the novel was named one of South"
"Michelle Magorian Michelle Magorian (born 6 November 1947) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for her first novel, ""Goodnight Mister Tom"", which won the 1982 Guardian Prize for British children's books and has been adapted several times for screen or stage. Two other well-known works are ""Back Home"" and ""A Little Love Song"". She resides in Petersfield, Hampshire, with her two children Tom and George. Michelle Magorian was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and is of Armenian origin. She lived in Singapore and Australia from age seven to nine. As a child she spent as much"