author 2016

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of seventeen books, including Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981, the ‘Booker of Bookers’ in 1993, and, in 2008, the ‘Best of the Booker.’ In2007, he was awarded a Knighthood for services to literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur…

V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He was knighted in 1989, was awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1993, and received the Nobel…