Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie is the author of more than a dozen books, including Midnight's Children, which won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker. He is a former president of PEN American Center, and was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

Explore the incredible books that have won the prestigious Booker Prize and International Booker Prize.

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career.