"FILE - This Sept. 8, 2012 file photo shows author Salman Rushdie posing during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Rushdie is promoting the film adaptation of his breakthrough novel, ""Midnight's Children,"" winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 and one of the most highly praised works of fiction of its time. (AP Photo/The Canadian Presss, Chris Young, file)"