Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan, PEN American Center
Much of Rushdie's fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent where he was born. Rushdie is also the author of a book of stories, “East, West,” and three works of nonfiction — “Imaginary Homelands,” “The Jaguar Smile,” and “Step Across This Line.” He is the co-editor of “Mirrorwork,” an anthology of contemporary Indian writing and winner of the prize as the 2008 Best American Short Stories anthology.
A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, Rushdie has received the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the Writers’ Guild Award, the James Tait Black Prize, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes in both Britain and Germany, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, the Crossword Book Award in India, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the London International Writers’ Award and the James Joyce award of University College Dublin.
Rushdie holds honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American universities, is an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T. and is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University. He has received the Freedom of the City in Mexico City, Strasbourg and El Paso, and the Edgerton Prize of the American Civil Liberties Union. In June 2007 he received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. In 2008 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named a Library Lion of the New York Public Library.
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