GK
HONOURS AND AWARDS
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J K Rowling
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Ronald Clipp
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Arundathi Roy
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Salman Rushdie
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Detailed explanation-1: -Salman Rushdie, novelist and target of a fatwa that forced him into hiding for years, has won the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize.
Detailed explanation-2: -That Indian-born British-American writer Salman Rushdie didn’t get the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature has disappointed fans who wanted him to get it for a variety of reasons. Salman Rushdie, Indian-born as we never forget to add, almost won the Nobel Prize for literature. Almost. He was this close, we were this close!
Detailed explanation-3: -Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Rushdie began to use “Joseph Anton” as a pseudonym; Rushdie chose the alias to honor the writers Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov.