"respectively. The winner, as chosen by a public vote, was Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", and was announced on July 10 at the London Literature Festival. ""Midnight's Children"" not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary. The shortlisted titles were: The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008"
"Angela Carter's ""Nights at the Circus"". James Tait Black Memorial Prize The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, the prizes were founded in 1919 by Mrs Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd. Prizes are awarded in three categories: Fiction, Biography and Drama. From inception, the James Tait Black prize was organised"
"committee to celebrate the 25th and 40th anniversary of the award). The book went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone. In 1984 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by his accusing her of contributing to his father Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect. The case was settled out of court when Salman Rushdie agreed to remove the"
"Pakistan"" (1956), several short stories such as ""Toba Tek Singh"" (1955) by Saadat Hassan Manto, Urdu poems such as ""Subh-e-Azadi"" (Freedom’s Dawn, 1947) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Bhisham Sahni's ""Tamas"" (1974), Manohar Malgonkar's ""A Bend in the Ganges"" (1965), and Bapsi Sidhwa's ""Ice-Candy Man"" (1988), among others. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Midnight's Children"" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, weaved its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947. ""Freedom at Midnight"" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the"
"1950 on throughout the 20th century, and she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. 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 Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. From Nigeria a number of writers have achieved an international reputation for"
"James Tait Black Memorial Prize The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, the prizes were founded in 1919 by Mrs Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd. Prizes are awarded in three categories: Fiction, Biography and Drama. From inception, the James Tait Black prize was organised without overt publicity. There was a"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing from 1950 on throughout the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writer from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired"
"of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015. Earlier, he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published "","" an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over ""The Satanic Verses"". Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on 19 June 1947 in Bombay, then British India, into a Kashmiri Muslim family. He is the son of Anis Ahmed"
"Shame (Rushdie novel) Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of ""artificial"" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism, when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus, when England gave up control of ""India""... The book was written in the style of magic realism. It portrays the lives of Iskander Harappa (sometimes assumed to be Zulfikar Ali Bhutto), and General Raza Hyder (sometimes assumed to be General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq), and their relationship. The central theme of the novel is"
"His novel ""Luka and the Fire of Life"" was published in November 2010. Earlier that year, he announced that he was writing his memoirs, entitled """", which was published in September 2012. In 2012, Salman Rushdie became one of the first major authors to embrace Booktrack (a company that synchronises ebooks with customised soundtracks), when he published his short story ""In the South"" on the platform. The Year 2015 saw the publication of Rushdie's novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a shift back to his old beloved technique of magic realism. This novel is designed in the structure"
"bestseller. In 2011, the novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the oldest literary prize in the United Kingdom. In addition it was a Finalist for the ""Los Angeles Times"" Book Prize and named a NYT Notable Book. It has been optioned to become a feature film. Her second novel, ""The Forgetting Tree"" (2012) was a New York Times Notable Book and NYT Editors' Choice. The book centers around a California ranching woman who runs her family's citrus farm and the Caribbean-born caretaker she hires to take help her through an illness. Jane Smiley, in the New York Times,"
"Black Memorial Prize for ""A Guest of Honour"" in 1971 and, in common with a number of winners of this award, she was to go on to win the Booker Prize. The Booker was awarded to Gordimer for her 1974 novel, ""The Conservationist"", and was a co-winner with Stanley Middleton's novel ""Holiday"". ""The Conservationist"" explores Zulu culture and the world of a wealthy white industrialist through the eyes of Mehring, the antihero. Per Wästberg described ""The Conservationist"" as Gordimer's ""densest and most poetical novel"". Thematically covering the same ground as Olive Schreiner's ""The Story of an African Farm"" (1883) and"
"him famous is his erotic and somewhat fantastical novel ""The White Hotel"" (1981), the story of a woman undergoing psychoanalysis, which has proved very popular in continental Europe and the United States. It was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1981, coming a close second, according to one of the judges, to the winner, Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"". It has also elicited considerable controversy, as some of its passages are taken from Anatoly Kuznetsov's ""Babi Yar"", a novel about the Holocaust. In general, however, Thomas's use of such ""composite material"" (material taken from other sources and imitations of other writers)"
"the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing inspiration from the Indian independence movement, the black power movement, and the anti-apartheid movement, young British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi activists began a number of anti-racist Asian youth movements in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Bradford Youth Movement in 1977, the Bangladeshi Youth Movement following the murder of Altab Ali in 1978, and the Newham Youth Movement following the murder of Akhtar Ali Baig in 1980. The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel ""The Satanic Verses"" in 1988 caused major controversy. A number of Muslims in Britain condemned the book for blasphemy. On 2 December"
"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."
"is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" 1962. Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his Gothic fantasy Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s. Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" (1981). His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989) was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia (now"
"Malgonkar's ""A Bend in the Ganges"" (1965), Chaman Nahal's ""AZADI"" (1975) originally written in English and winner of the Sahitya Akedemi Award in India (1977), and Bapsi Sidhwa's ""Ice-Candy Man"" (1988), among others. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Midnight's Children"" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and The Best of the Booker, wove its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947. ""Freedom at Midnight"" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947. There is a paucity of films related"
"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"
"him in advance whether he had won. His was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being ""Rites of Passage"" by William Golding. The judges decided only 30 minutes before the ceremony, giving the prize to Golding. Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize, and the dramatic ""literary battle"" between two senior writers made front page news. In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to ""The Guardian"" requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted"
"recognized to promote the good, and what constitutes a good deed. It was adapted into a Hindi film by the same name by Pamela Rooks in 1998. ""Train to Pakistan"" (1990). Grove Press; . Penned by Bhisham Sahni and the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975, ""Tamas"" depicted riots in a small Indian town. The novel was later adapted into a TV series by the same name for Doordarshan, and later a one-off four-hour feature film. ""Tamas"" - Rajkamal Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.. . Salman Rushdie wrote this famous surrealistic fiction full of satirical references to the event of"
"Zia-ul-Haq. ""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 the Kashmiri diaspora. Rushdie wrote a non-fiction book about Nicaragua in 1987 called ""The Jaguar Smile"". This book has a political focus and is based on his first-hand experiences and research at the scene of Sandinista political experiments. His most controversial work, ""The Satanic Verses"", was published in 1988 (see section"
"the first well known novels written by a black author in an African language was Solomon Thekiso Plaatje's ""Mhudi"", written in 1930. During the 1950s, ""Drum"" magazine became a hotbed of political satire, fiction, and essays, giving a voice to urban black culture. Notable white South African authors include Alan Paton, who published the novel ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" in 1948. Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1991. JM Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 2003. When awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy stated that Coetzee ""in innumerable"
"""one of the most significant events in postwar literary history."" Even before the publication of ""The Satanic Verses"", the books of Salman Rushdie had stoked controversy. Rushdie saw his role as a writer ""as including the function of antagonist to the state"". His second book ""Midnight's Children"" angered Indira Gandhi because it seemed to suggest ""that Mrs. Gandhi was responsible for the death of her husband through neglect"". His 1983 ""roman à clef"" ""Shame"" ""took an aim on Pakistan, its political characters, its culture and its religion... [It covered] a central episode in Pakistan's internal life, which portrays as a"
"movement leaders, nationalistic themes and defence-related themes on 15 August. Independence and partition inspired literary and other artistic creations. Such creations mostly describe the human cost of partition, limiting the holiday to a small part of their narrative. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Midnight's Children"" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, wove its narrative around children born at midnight of 14–15 August 1947 with magical abilities. ""Freedom at Midnight"" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947. Few films centre on the"
"(1992). Seventeen winners of the Booker Prize have taken part: Margaret Atwood (2000), Julian Barnes (2011), A.S. Byatt (1990), Peter Carey (1988) & (2001), Kiran Desai (2006), Roddy Doyle (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Howard Jacobson (2010), Thomas Keneally (1982), Penelope Lively (1987), Ian McEwan (1998), Yann Martel (2002), V. S. Naipaul (1971), Ben Okri (1991), Michael Ondaatje (1992), Arundhati Roy (1997), and Salman Rushdie (1981). Seven Whitbread (now called Costa) Book of the Year Award winners have taken part: Peter Ackroyd (1985), William Boyd (1981), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Andrea Levy (2004), David Lodge (1980), Philip Pullman (2006) and Colm Tóibín"
"was an account of his childhood in the poverty-ridden Dongri area of Mumbai. His latest novel, ""Sufi"", describes the parallel lives of two friends: the author himself and a man called Iqbal Rupani, who rose to become the kingpin of the Mumbai underworld in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1975, his fictional version based on the ""Devil's Bible"", entitled ""The Black Book"", created a nationwide controversy. Even amidst critical acclaim, it was translated into seven languages and voted Book of the Year in Kannada. He earned the nickname the ""Salman Rushdie of India"" after his ""Black Book"" was published. He"
"of Allah. This entire matter was a mere footnote to the back-and-forth of religious debate, and was rekindled only when Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, ""The Satanic Verses"", made headline news. The novel contains some fictionalized allusions to Islamic history, which provoked both controversy and outrage. Muslims around the world protested the book's publishing, and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa sentencing Rushdie to death, saying that the book blasphemed Muhammad and his wives. Since William Muir, the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by orientalists. Some orientalists, however, argued against the historic authenticity of these verses on various"
"Hall, Darcus Howe, and Salman Rushdie. The Black Audio Film Collective released their film ""Handsworth Songs"", and there was much to say about it and its implications. The film looks at the ""riots"" of 1985 in Handsworth and South London. Writing Black Britain Writing Black Britain 1948-1998 is an anthology of black British writings published in 2000 and edited by James Procter. The selection of writings includes many well-known writers such as Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy. This is an interdisciplinary collection and contains a variety of writings that discuss different forms of representation, i.e. films, music, and photography. It"
"suffer persecution as authorities recognize their unique power and ability to impact on the masses. Salman Rushdie, an awarded British-Muslim novelist and essayist of Indian origin became a target following the publication his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988). The book was the center of a major controversy in the Islamic world because of what was perceived as an irreverent depiction of Muhammad. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989 and a bounty was offered for Rushdie's death. Rushdi was forced to hide and"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"Garfield was also a Commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal three times, for ""Smith"", ""Black Jack"", and ""Drummer Boy"", the latter in competition with his Medal-winning work. ""John Diamond"" (1980) won the annual Whitbread Literary Award, Children's Novel, a year's best award that considers enjoyable reading for a wide audience, as well as literary merit. ""Smith"" won the 1987 Phoenix Award (from the mythical phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes) from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when originally published. ‡ ""The God Beneath the Sea"" (1970)"
"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"
"world. As a birthday present, Omar Khayyám Shakil's ""mothers"" allow him to leave Q. He enrolls in a school and is convinced by his tutor (Eduardo Rodriguez) to become a doctor. Over time, he comes in contact with both Iskander Harappa and General Raza Hyder. Rushdie, Salman. ""Shame"". Vintage: London, 1995. Shame (Rushdie novel) Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of ""artificial"" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism, when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus, when"