Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Cape
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC later praised Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children as ‘a feast of sensations. A world was created full of clamour and scent, food smells, flowers and colour. I can still remember the thrill of its magic, the nosebleed turning to rubies on the page.’
Shortlisted authors
Molly Keane
Doris Lessing
Ian McEwan
Ann Schlee |
Muriel Spark
D.M. Thomas Judges
Professor Malcolm Bradbury (Chair) |