id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4446 Midnight's Children - Wikipedia .html text/html 2961 356 72 Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981.[1] It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.[2][3] In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels".[4] It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books. Midnight's Children has been called "a watershed in the post-independence development of the Indian English novel", to the extent that the decade after its 1981 publication has been called "post-Rushdie". 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4446.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4446.txt