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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SayWhatYouSee: [QB] Tarka, hello, Firstly, I'm not a supporter of the British honours system, as it stands today. Is Rushdie a great writer? You can only decide this by reading his work yourself. We all have vastly different tastes. The first book of his I read was [i]Midnight's Children[/i] . I thought it was staggeringly good. Here is some information on what others think of Midnight's Children, as a work of literature: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth87 Not only did he win a [i]Booker Prize[/i] , but Midnight's Children was awarded the [i]Booker of Bookers[/i], which means that it is regarded as the best Booker Prize novel in twenty five years. This is pretty impressive and all before the controversial [i]Satanic Verses[/i] was even written. Bibliography Grimus Gollancz, 1975 Midnight's Children Cape, 1981 Shame Cape, 1983 The Jaguar Smile Picador, 1987 The Satanic Verses Viking, 1988 Haroun and the Sea of Stories Granta, 1990 In Good Faith Granta, 1990 Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 Granta, 1991 The Wizard of Oz British Film Institute, 1992 East, West Cape, 1994 The Moor's Last Sigh Cape, 1995 The Vintage Book of Indian Writing (co-editor with Elizabeth West) Vintage, 1997 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Cape, 1999 Fury Cape, 2001 Step Across This Line: Collected Non-fiction 1992-2002 Cape, 2002 Shalimar The Clown Cape, 2005 Careless Masters Cape, 2007 Parallelville Vintage, 2007 Contemporary Indian writers, such as Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie have made a considerable contribution to literature, in my opinion. I am more than happy to see such work recognised. If others disagree on literature, that's fine by me. Only time will tell if his works are true classics. I'm enormously thankful that people have the right to read the books and decide for themselves...or not, in the country I live in. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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