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*1981-English-Speaking Union Award | *1981-English-Speaking Union Award | ||
*1981-[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] joint winner | *1981-[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] joint winner | ||
*1993-Booker of Bookers (special award made to celebrate 25 years of the Booker Prize for Fiction) | *1993-Booker of Bookers (special award made to celebrate 25 years of the Booker Prize for Fiction) | ||
==Reception and Reviews== | |||
*Robert Taubman. "Experimments with truth." LRB, 7-20 May 1981, pp. 3, 5-6. | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*Price, David W. "Critiquing the Past: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children". In: History Made, History Imagined. Contemporary Literature, Poiesis, and the Past. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 121-151. | *Price, David W. "Critiquing the Past: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children". In: History Made, History Imagined. Contemporary Literature, Poiesis, and the Past. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 121-151. | ||
==Links== | |||
*[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth87 Salman Rushdie at ContemporaryWriters.com] | |||
[[Category:20th century|1981]] | [[Category:20th century|1981]] | ||
[[Category:1980s|1981]] | [[Category:1980s|1981]] | ||
[[Category:By author|Rushdie, Salman]] | [[Category:By author|Rushdie, Salman]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:01, 9 March 2008
Midnight's Children is a novel written by Salman Rushdie and first published by Jonathan Cape (UK) in April 1981. "The novel narrates key events in the history of India through the story of pickle-factory worker Saleem Sinai, one of 1001 children born as India won independence from Britain in 1947." [1]
Awards
- 1981-Arts Council Writers' Award
- 1981-Booker Prize for Fiction
- 1981-English-Speaking Union Award
- 1981-James Tait Black Memorial Prize joint winner
- 1993-Booker of Bookers (special award made to celebrate 25 years of the Booker Prize for Fiction)
Reception and Reviews
- Robert Taubman. "Experimments with truth." LRB, 7-20 May 1981, pp. 3, 5-6.
Further Reading
- Price, David W. "Critiquing the Past: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children". In: History Made, History Imagined. Contemporary Literature, Poiesis, and the Past. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 121-151.
