Which novel of Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981?
- A.The Satanic Verses
- B.Shame
- C.Midnight's Children
- D.The Moor's Last Sigh
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The correct answer is C, Midnight's Children, the novel about Saleem Sinai, born at the exact hour of India's independence, which won the Booker Prize in 1981. It was later chosen as the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and again as the Best of the Booker in 2008, the only novel to be honoured in that way twice.
Option A, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, was shortlisted for the Booker but did not win it; it won the Whitbread Award for a novel. Option B, Shame, published in 1983, was also shortlisted and lost. Option D, The Moor's Last Sigh, of 1995, won the Whitbread Book of the Year. All three are Rushdie's works, so the year 1981 and the title Midnight's Children must be remembered together.
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