The Satanic Verses

Argentina derives, in part, from the writings of W. H. Hudson, especially
Far Away and Long Ago
. I should like to thank Pauline Melville for untangling my plaits from my dreadlocks; and to confess that the ‘Gagari’ poems of ‘Bhupen Gandhi’ are, in fact, echoes of Arun Kolatkar’s collection
Jejuri
. The verses by Kenneth Tynan in the novel’s final section have been taken from
Tynan Right and Left
(copyright © Kenneth Tynan, 1967).
    The identities of many of the authors from whom I’ve learned will, I hope, be clear from the text; others must remain anonymous, but I thank them, too.

S ALMAN R USHDIE is the author of nine novels—
Grimus, Midnight’s Children
(for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”),
Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury
, and
Shalimar the Clown
—and one collection of short stories,
East, West
. He has also published five works of nonfiction:
The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz, Mirrorwork
, and
Step Across This Line
.