This is will be the first time the Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie will be adapted into a series

Content-streaming service Netflix, on Friday, announced that they will be adapting author’s Salman Rushdie’s critically acclaimed Midnight’s Children into a Netflix Original Series.

“I am absolutely delighted that Midnight’s Children will have a new life on Netflix, and greatly look forward to working with them to help create it,” Rushdie said in a statement released by Netflix.

Midnight’s Children follows the life of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the time of India’s Independence. The story revolves around Sinai’s telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

Erik Barmack, VP, International Originals, Netflix, said in a statement, “Midnight’s Children is one of the great novels of the world, and its themes are still relevant to the India of today. We are incredibly excited to translate this pioneering work of fiction that parallels the birth of modern India, for a global audience.”

This is will be the first time the Booker Prize-winning novel will be adapted into a series. The novel, published in 1981, was adapted for the theatre by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003 and by director Deepa Mehta in 2012.