The author of the book Midnight's Children is:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children is a novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. Its narrator, Saleem Sinai, is born at the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947, the moment of India’s independence, and his life runs alongside the history of the new nation.

The novel won the Booker Prize in 1981, and was later chosen as the “Booker of Bookers” (1993) and the “Best of the Booker” (2008).