Salman Rushdie wrote a novel published in December 1981.
==== Further works 1990's and 2000's ====In addition to novels, Rushdie has published many short stories, including those collected in East, West (1994)
In a 2006 interview about his novel Shalimar the Clown, Rushdie laments the division of Kashmir into zones of Indian and Pakistani administration as having cut his family down the middle

