Internationally celebrated Booker Prize winning fiction writer Salman Rushdie gave a reading as part of the 2010-2011 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series--the Series' 30th anniversary season. Rushdie appeared on Friday, December 3, 2010, at Jones Hall in Downtown Houston. Close to 2,000 people attended the reading, Inprint’s largest audience to date.
Salman Rushdie, one of the most thought provoking writers of our time, is the author of more than ten novels, including Midnight’s Children, winner of the Booker Prize, the Booker of Bookers, and the Best of the Booker; the controversial The Satanic Verses; The Moor’s Last Sigh; and others. He has also published four works of non-fiction and a collection of short stories, and has edited two anthologies. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature, Rushdie was ranked 13th by the London Times on their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945." He read from new novel, Luka and the Fire of Life, an absorbing fable and companion to his bestselling earlier work, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. The reading was followed by an on-stage interview, conducted by Houston novelist Alexander Parsons. PLEASE BE PATIENT AS THE VIDEO MAY TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO LOAD.