Editing Salman Rushdie (section)

==Awards, honours, and recognition==
Salman Rushdie has received many plaudits for his writings, including the European Union's [[Aristeion Prize]] for Literature, the [[Premio Grinzane Cavour]] (Italy), and the Writer of the Year Award in Germany, and many of literature's highest honours.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Review/One_more_bouquet_for_Saleem_Sinai/articleshow/3254751.cms|title=One more bouquet for Saleem Sinai|first=Nina|last=Martyris|newspaper=The Times of India|date=20 July 2008|access-date=7 November 2008|archive-date=12 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112235447/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Review/One_more_bouquet_for_Saleem_Sinai/articleshow/3254751.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>

Awards and honours include:
* [[Austrian State Prize for European Literature]] (1993)<ref>{{cite web|title=Salman Rushdie: Kennedy Center|url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/r/ro-rz/salman-rushdie/|access-date=14 August 2022|archive-date=16 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116183904/https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/r/ro-rz/salman-rushdie/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Booker Prize]] (1981)<ref>{{cite web|title=Salman Rushdie: The Booker Prizes|date=19 June 1947|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/salman-rushdie|access-date=14 August 2022|archive-date=6 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906052716/https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/salman-rushdie|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Doctor Honoris Causa]] (Dr.h.c.) from the [[University of Liège]], Belgium (1999)<ref>{{YouTube |lr_Rku7tl7Q |Salman Rushdie}}</ref>
*[[Golden PEN Award]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Golden Pen Award|url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature|access-date=3 December 2012|publisher=[[English PEN]]|archive-date=21 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121020544/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award]] (2014)<ref name="politiken">{{cite news|date=12 June 2013|title=Salman Rushdie får dansk litteraturpris på halv million|language=da|trans-title=Salman Rushdie receives the Danish literature prize of a half-million|newspaper=[[Politiken]]|url=http://politiken.dk/kultur/boger/ECE1995354/salman-rushdie-faar-dansk-litteraturpris-paa-halv-million/|access-date=12 June 2013|archive-date=16 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616035140/http://politiken.dk/kultur/boger/ECE1995354/salman-rushdie-faar-dansk-litteraturpris-paa-halv-million/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Honorary degree of [[Doctor of Humane Letters]] (L.H.D.) from [[Indiana University]] (2018)<ref>{{cite web|title=University Honors & Awards, Indiana University website|url=https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/awards/honoree/8433.html#:~:text=In%202018%2C%20Indiana%20University%20awarded,Humanities%20Festival%20held%20in%20Bloomington.|access-date=13 August 2022|archive-date=13 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813190249/https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/awards/honoree/8433.html#:~:text=In%202018%2C%20Indiana%20University%20awarded,Humanities%20Festival%20held%20in%20Bloomington.|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Honorary degree of [[Doctor of Letters]] (Litt.D.) from [[Emory University]] (2015)<ref>{{cite news|first=Janel|last=Davis|date=16 February 2015|title=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Author Salman Rushdie to deliver Emory commencement May 11|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/author-salman-rushdie-deliver-emory-commencement-may/OSUMu2jL6xJw0A4wSb84WK/|access-date=14 August 2022|archive-date=12 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812163630/https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/author-salman-rushdie-deliver-emory-commencement-may/OSUMu2jL6xJw0A4wSb84WK/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://secretary.emory.edu/meet_the_secretary/honorary_degrees/_includes/documents/sections/recipients/honorary-degrees-recipients.pdf Chronological Listing of Honorary Degree Recipients, Emory University, 1846 – present] – website [[Emory University]]</ref>
* [[James Joyce Award]] from [[University College Dublin]] (2008)<ref>{{cite news|title=Salman Rushdie honoured at UCD, The Irish Times website|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/salmon-rushdie-honoured-at-ucd-1.829881|access-date=14 August 2022|archive-date=11 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011165930/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/salmon-rushdie-honoured-at-ucd-1.829881|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism from [[Harvard University]] (2007)<ref>{{cite web|first=Greg|last=Epstein|author-link=Greg Epstein|date=20 April 2007|title=HNN #18: Salman Rushdie & Cultural Humanism|url=http://thehumanist.com/multimedia/podcast/hnn-18-salman-rushdie-cultural-humanism|access-date=9 October 2015|publisher=[[American Humanist Association]] and the Humanist Chaplaincy of Harvard University|archive-date=22 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922021132/http://thehumanist.com/multimedia/podcast/hnn-18-salman-rushdie-cultural-humanism|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[PEN Pinter Prize]] (UK)<ref>{{cite web|date=19 June 2014|title=Salman Rushdie awarded the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize|website=[[English PEN]]|url=http://www.englishpen.org/salman-rushdie-awarded-the-2014-pen-pinter-prize/|access-date=19 June 2014|archive-date=23 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623151659/http://www.englishpen.org/salman-rushdie-awarded-the-2014-pen-pinter-prize/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[St. Louis Literary Award]] from the [[Saint Louis University]] Library Associates<ref>{{cite web|title=Saint Louis Literary Award – Saint Louis University|url=http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html|access-date=24 December 2018|website=www.slu.edu|archive-date=23 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823003924/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Swiss Freethinkers Award 2019<ref>{{cite web|title=Salman Rushdie and Barbara Miller to receive Swiss Freethinker Award 2019|url=https://free-thought.ch/news/2019-11-07/salman-rushdie-and-barbara-miller-receive-swiss-freethinker-award-2019|access-date=18 November 2019|website=free-thought.ch|date=7 November 2019 |language=en|archive-date=12 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112152233/https://free-thought.ch/news/2019-11-07/salman-rushdie-and-barbara-miller-receive-swiss-freethinker-award-2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
*Champion of Writers Award from Authors Guild Foundation in 2025<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Authors Guild Foundation Gala |url=https://authorsguild.org/foundation/gala/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=The Authors Guild |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Knighthood===
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Rushdie was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] for services to literature in the [[2007 Birthday Honours|Queen's Birthday Honours]] on 16 June 2007. He remarked: "I am thrilled and humbled to receive this great honour, and am very grateful that my work has been recognised in this way."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6756149.stm |work=BBC News |title=15 June 2007 Rushdie knighted in honours list |access-date=16 June 2007 |date=15 June 2007 |archive-date=23 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823004356/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6756149.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In response to his knighthood, many nations with Muslim majorities protested. Parliamentarians of several of these countries condemned the action, and Iran and Pakistan called in their British envoys to protest formally. Controversial condemnation issued by Pakistan's Religious Affairs Minister [[Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq]] was in turn rebuffed by former Prime Minister [[Benazir Bhutto]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2193993/Salman-Rushdie-is-knighted-by-the-Queen.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2193993/Salman-Rushdie-is-knighted-by-the-Queen.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Salman Rushdie is knighted by the Queen|last=Pierce|first=Andrew|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=23 May 2017|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Several called publicly for his death. Some non-Muslims expressed disappointment at Rushdie's knighthood, claiming that the writer did not merit such an honour and there were several other writers who deserved the knighthood more than Rushdie.<ref>"Sir Rubbish: Does Rushdie Deserve a Knighthood", ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', 20 June 2007.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/world/asia/20iht-rushdie.1.6228425.html|title=Protests spread to Malaysia over knighthood for Salman Rushdie|date=20 June 2007|work=The New York Times|access-date=23 May 2017|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=22 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622074115/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/world/asia/20iht-rushdie.1.6228425.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Al-Qaeda]] condemned the Rushdie honour. The group's then-leader, [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]], was quoted as saying in an audio recording that the UK's award for Rushdie was "an insult to Islam", and it was planning "a very precise response."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6289110.stm |work=BBC News |title=10 July 2007 Al-Qaeda condemns Rushdie honour |access-date=10 July 2007 |date=10 July 2007 |archive-date=28 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828020137/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6289110.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

When asked if the knighthood was an insult to Muslims, [[Christopher Hitchens]] answered "''Midnight's Children'' did not just win the Booker, and Salman did not just later win the Booker of Bookers, ''Midnight's Children'' won the main literary award in Iran, people tend to forget. When the fatwa was issued against him by a senile theocratic dictator who had run his own country into beggary and bankruptcy and misery, every Arab and Muslim writer worthy of the name, all signed, and wrote in a book for Salman, we identify our cause with you, and your struggle with free expression in our culture. If you say that Muslims are being offended by this, and you lump them all together, you immediately grant that they are in fact represented by the most extreme, homicidal, fanatical, illiterate, intolerant people who not only haven't read this book, but couldn't read it. And that's an insult to Islam!"<ref>{{cite web| title=When Christopher Hitchens Vigilantly Defended Salman Rushdie After the Fatwah: "It Was a Matter of Everything I Loved"| website=Open Culture| url=https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/when-christopher-hitchens-vigilantly-defended-salman-rushdie-after-the-fatwah-it-was-a-matter-of-everything-i-hated-versus-everything-i-loved.html#google_vignette}}</ref>

Rushdie was appointed a Member of the [[Order of the Companions of Honour]] (CH) in the [[2022 Birthday Honours]] for services to literature.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63714|supp=y|page=B6|date=1 June 2022}}</ref>