The latest honor for Salman Rushdie was a prize kept secret until minutes before he rose from his seat to accept it. On Tuesday night, the author received the first-ever Lifetime.
At 76, Rushdie, recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade last month, found himself receiving another accolade, reflecting on the irony of being awarded for disturbing the peace. He pondered which side of the fence this placed him on.
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The Booker Prize winning author of Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie has made a rare public appearance on Wednesday night at the Václav Havel Center in Ne.