Knife

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels— Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight’ s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’ s Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize); and Victory City— and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published five works of nonfiction— The Jaguar Smile; Imaginary Homelands; Step Across This Line; Joseph Anton; and Languages of Truth— and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.