HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947. He is the author of several novels for adults, including Midnight’s Children (winner of the 1993 Booker Prize), Shame and The Satanic Verses (winner of the 1988 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel). In 1990 he received the Writers’ Guild Award for Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

Salman Rushdie is an Honorary Professor in Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been translated into many different languages.