The correct answer is C. Salman Rushdie.
Midnight’s Children is a 1981 novel by Salman Rushdie. It won the 1981 Booker Prize and the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. The novel is set in India, from the time of its independence in 1947 to the Emergency of 1975. It tells the story of Saleem Sinai, who is born at the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947, the moment of India’s independence. Saleem is one of 1,001 children who are born at the same time, and he has a special connection to India’s history and destiny.
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist. She is best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the 1997 Booker Prize.
Taslima Nasreen is a Bangladeshi author and feminist. She is best known for her novel Lajja, which was banned in Bangladesh.
Kiran Desai is an Indian author. She is the author of the novels Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, The Inheritance of Loss, and The Zigzag Way.