Salman Rushdie

Acting

Born: 1947-06-19
From: Mumbai, India
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.6

Biography

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, 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.

Awards & Nominations33 won · 11 nominated

🏆 Won

Companion of Honour

2022
🏆 Won

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2022
🏆 Won

Humanist of the Year

2019
Nominated

Booker Prize

Quichotte

2019
🏆 Won

Emperor Has No Clothes Award

2018
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Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes

2015
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Norman Mailer Prize

2015
🏆 Won

Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award

2014
🏆 Won

PEN Pinter Prize

2014
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Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service

2010
🏆 Won

Golden PEN Award

2010
🏆 Won

National Arts Awards

2009
🏆 Won

Carl Sandburg Literary Award

2009
🏆 Won

St. Louis Literary Award

2009
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

The Enchantress of Florence

2009
🏆 Won

James Joyce Awards

2008
Nominated

Booker Prize

The Enchantress of Florence

2008
Nominated

Dublin Literary Award

Shalimar the Clown

2007
🏆 Won

Crossword Book Award

Shalimar the Clown

2005
Nominated

Booker Prize

Shalimar the Clown

2005
Nominated

Costa Book Awards

Shalimar the Clown

2005
🏆 Won

honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII

2001
🏆 Won

Honorary doctor of the University of Liège

1999
Nominated

Otherwise Award

1997
🏆 Won

The British Book Awards

1996
🏆 Won

Aristeion Prize

1996
🏆 Won

Costa Book Awards

The Moor's Last Sigh

1995
Nominated

Booker Prize

The Moor's Last Sigh

1995
🏆 Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

1993
🏆 Won

Austrian State Prize for European Literature

1992
🏆 Won

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

1992
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Mythopoeic Awards

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

1992
🏆 Won

Kurt Tucholsky Prize

1992
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

The Satanic Verses

1990
🏆 Won

Costa Book Awards

The Satanic Verses

1988
Nominated

Booker Prize

The Satanic Verses

1988
🏆 Won

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

1983
Nominated

Booker Prize

Shame

1983
🏆 Won

Booker Prize

Midnight's Children

1981
🏆 Won

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

1981
🏆 Won

honorary doctor of the University of Tromso

🏆 Won

Order of the Companions of Honour

🏆 Won

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

🏆 Won

Knight Bachelor

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Writing2 titles

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