AWARDS

Midnight's Children

Booker prize 1981, "Booker of Bookers" (the best book to be awarded the Booker in the first 25 years) 1993, James Tait Black Prize, Midnight's Children came in at 25 on a poll conducted by the Guardian newspaper listing the 100 best books of the 20th century.

Shame

Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger

Satanic Verses

Whitbread Prize Germany's Author of the Year

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Writer's Guild award

The Wizard of Oz

Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1993

The Moor's Last Sigh

Booker prize short-list 1995 Whitbread novel of the year award