SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of 22 books, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Best of the Booker Prize), Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Rushdie has received numerous accolades, such as the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (awarded twice), the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. In 2007, he was honored with a Knighthood and was made a Companion of Honour in 2022. Rushdie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a former president of PEN America. In 2023, Rushdie received the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels and was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year.

Salman Rushdie is the recipient of the 2025 SVWC Writer in the World Prize.

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