Author Salman Rushdie has been awarded a prestigious German prize for his literary work and for his resolve and optimistic perspective within the face of fixed hazard
FILE – Creator Salman Rushdie attends the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala Thursday, Could 18, 2023, in New York. Rushdie has been awarded a prestigious German prize for his literary work and for his resolve and optimistic perspective within the face of fixed hazard. Rushdie was introduced on Monday, June 19, 2023, as this yr’s winner of the Peace Prize of the German E-book Commerce, which is endowed with 25,000 euros ($27,350). (AP Photograph/Frank Franklin II, File)
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BERLIN — Author Salman Rushdie has been awarded a prestigious German prize for his literary work and for his resolve and optimistic perspective within the face of fixed hazard, the prize organizers stated Monday.
The Peace Prize of the German E-book Commerce stated the British-American creator would obtain the award in Frankfurt on Oct. 22.
Rushdie’s writing “combines narrative imaginative and prescient with fixed literary innovation, humor and knowledge,” the jury stated. “He describes the pressure with which violent regimes destroy complete societies, but in addition the indestructibility of the person’s spirit of resistance.”
Final August, Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly whereas on stage at a literary competition in New York state.
“Regardless of huge bodily and psychological penalties that he’s nonetheless wrestling with, he continues to put in writing — in an imaginative and deeply human means,” the German jury wrote. “We’re honoring Salman Rushdie for his resolve, his optimistic perspective to life and for the truth that he enriches the world together with his pleasure in narrating.”
Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had condemned as blasphemous passages referring to the Prophet Muhammad in Rushdie’s 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses.” Khomeini issued a decree the next yr calling for Rushdie’s dying, forcing the creator into hiding, though he had been touring freely for years earlier than final summer season’s stabbing.
The German prize, which is endowed with 25,000 euros ($27,350), has been awarded since 1950.