Which British author wrote the novel 'Midnight's Children'?

Salman Rushdie wrote the novel Midnight’s Children.

Published in 1981, Midnight’s Children follows Saleem Sinai, who is born at the precise moment India becomes independent from British rule. The novel links Saleem’s life with the country’s modern history, including independence, Partition and later political upheaval. Its mixture of historical events, family saga and magical elements is often described as magical realism or historiographic metafiction.

Rushdie was born in Bombay, then part of British India, and became an Indian-British writer; he later also became an American citizen. The novel’s Indian setting and its use of English sometimes lead readers to classify it primarily as Indian literature, but Rushdie is also widely recognised as a British novelist. That makes the quiz’s wording fair, though his identity spans more than one national tradition.

Midnight’s Children won the 1981 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It later received the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and the Best of the Booker in 2008, honours reflecting its lasting reputation in English-language fiction.