![]() A huge number of writers and readers have long owed him a major debt. He has ticked every box except the Nobel prize: he has been knighted he is on everyone’s list of significant British writers he has collected an impressive bouquet of prizes and honours, but, most importantly, he has touched and inspired a great many people around the globe. No wonder: its inventiveness, range, historical scope and verbal dexterity were breathtaking, and it opened the door to subsequent generations of writers who might previously have felt that their identities or subject matter excluded them from the movable feast that is English-language literature. ![]() Rushdie exploded on to the literary scene in 1981 with his second novel, Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker prize that year. ![]() It was a money-where-your-mouth-is moment.Īnd, with the recent attack on him, so is this. ![]()
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