(FILES) British-US author Salman Rushdie arrives for the PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on May 18, 2023. Salman Rushdie will be awarded the 2023 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels), it was announced on June 19, 2023. The award ceremony will take place on October 22, 2023 at Paulskirche Church of St Paul in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for 2023 has been awarded to British-American author Salman Rushdie, “for his indomitable spirit, for his affirmation of life and for enriching our world with his love of storytelling,”. Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, in Bombay (now Mumbai), Ahmed Salman Rushdie’s name is best known worldwide for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which caused widespread uproar in the Muslim world for its story inspired by the life of Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It also prompted Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to declare a fatwa against the author.
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The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, endowed with €25,000 ($27,300), will be handed out in a ceremony in October during the Frankfurt Book Fair. The prize, created in 1950, recognizes a personality committed to serving international understanding between nations and cultures through their work. Last year, the award went to Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan. Previous recipients include, among others, Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Vaclav Havel .
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