2009 St. Louis Literary Award Winner Salman Rushdie, Part 1

The St. Louis University Library Associates was delighted to announce that Sir Salman Rushdie received the 2009 Saint Louis Literary Award on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 on the Saint Louis University campus. Born in Bombay, India, Salman Rushdie is the acclaimed author of ten novels - Grimus , Midnight’s Children (Booker Prize, 1981; “Best of the Booker” award, 2008, for the best novel to have won the prize in its first 40 years), Shame , The Satanic Verses , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , The Moor’s Last Sigh , The Ground Beneath Her Feet , Fury , Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence – and one book of stories, East, West, as well as three works of nonfiction— Imaginary Homelands , The Jaguar Smile, and Step Across This Line .