Writer Salman Rushdie has been awarded a prestigious German prize for his literary work and for his resolve and positive attitude in the face of constant danger, the prize organisers said Monday.
The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade said the British-American author would receive the award in Frankfurt on October 22.
Rushdie's writing 바카라combines narrative vision with constant literary innovation, humour and wisdom,바카라 the jury said. 바카라He describes the force with which violent regimes destroy whole societies, but also the indestructibility of the individual's spirit of resistance.바카라
Last August, Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly while on stage at a literary festival in New York state.
바카라Despite massive physical and psychological consequences that he is still wrestling with, he continues to write - in an imaginative and deeply human way,바카라 the German jury wrote. 바카라We are honouring Salman Rushdie for his resolve, his positive attitude to life and for the fact that he enriches the world with his pleasure in narrating.바카라
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 following year calling for Rushdie's death, forcing the author into hiding, although he had been travelling freely for years before last summer's stabbing.
The German prize, which is endowed with 25,000 euros (USD 27,350), has been awarded since 1950.
