Salman Rushdie was awarded the Peace Prize of the German E-book Commerce for his literary work and for his resolve within the face of “fixed risk to his life”.
A few 12 months after he was stabbed whereas on stage throughout a pageant in New York, famend author Salman Rushdie was awarded a prestigious German prize for his literary work and for his resolve within the face of “fixed risk to his life”.
The Peace Prize of the German E-book Commerce stated the British-American creator would obtain the award in Frankfurt on October 22. The announcement comes on Rushdie’s 76th birthday.
Describing Rushdie as a “passionate defender of freedom of thought and expression”, the jury stated: “From the second his masterpiece Midnight’s Youngsters was printed in 1981, Salman Rushdie has awed us together with his interpretations of migration and world politics.”
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“His work chronicles the drive utilized by oppressive regimes to destroy complete societies whereas additionally celebrating the indestructible spirit of resistance displayed by particular person human beings,” the jury added.
Mentioning about August 2022 assault on him forward of the publication of his novel, Victory Metropolis, the jury stated: “As we speak, regardless of nonetheless wrestling with large bodily and psychological penalties, he continues to put in writing with nice creativeness and deep humanity. We honour Salman Rushdie for his indomitable spirit, for his affirmation of life and for enriching our world together with his love of storytelling.”
The creator has lived beneath severe and fixed risk to his life ever since Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa towards him in 1989. It ought to be famous that Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had condemned passages alluding to the Prophet Muhammad within the Mumbai-born creator’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Khomeini issued a decree subsequent 12 months calling for Rushdie’s dying, forcing the creator into hiding.
“And but he stays a passionate defender of freedom of thought and expression – simply as equally for himself as for these whose views he doesn’t share. He thus accepts nice private danger in his enduring defence of a necessary prerequisite for peaceable human co-existence,” the jury stated.
The award ceremony will probably be held on October 22, this 12 months within the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt am Foremost and The Satanic Verses author will obtain a sum of €25,000 equal to an estimate of Rs 22,36,300.
First printed on: 19-06-2023 at 17:55 IST
