Salman Rushdie Receives Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for Narrative Foresight and Literary Innovation

2023-10-21 19:31:34

The British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie will be honored with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade this Sunday (11 a.m.) in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche. The prize is endowed with 25,000 euros and is considered one of the most important awards in the country. The eulogy for Rushdie will be given by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann.

Rushdie received the award “for his indomitability, his affirmation of life and for enriching the world with his joy of storytelling,” the board of trustees explained its decision when announcing this year’s winner in June. In his novels and non-fiction books he combines narrative foresight with constant literary innovation, humor and wisdom.

Rushdie became famous with his 1981 masterpiece “Midnight Children.” In 1989, the then Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for the murder of the author because of Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” because the text was directed once morest Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and the Koran. Rushdie has been blind in one eye since a knife attack in the USA in 2022.

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