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Who won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children' in 1981?
Answer
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie's debut novel 'Midnight's Children' won the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction in 1981, and was later named the Booker of Bookers (the best Booker Prize winner in the award's first 25 years). The novel uses magical realism to interweave personal and political narratives, following children born at the exact midnight moment of India's independence from British colonial rule on August 15, 1947. Rushdie's protagonist Saleem Sinai possesses telepathic powers and becomes metaphorically linked to India's own development as a nation. The novel's innovative narrative style, historical scope, and cultural significance established Rushdie as a major contemporary literary voice.
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Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was later named the Booker of Bookers as the greatest Booker winner in its first 25 years.
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