Option 2: Salman Rushdie -> Salman Rushdie is the acclaimed author of "Midnight's Children" (1981), a Booker Prize-winning novel that tells the story of India's transition from British colonialism to independence through magical realism, following children born at the exact moment of India's independence on August 15, 1947. The novel is considered one of the greatest works of fiction in the English language and won the Booker of Bookers prize. -> correct