2023-06-19 13:55:08
Monday, June 19, 2023, 1:55 p.m.
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The Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie has been awarded the prestigious German Booksellers Peace Prize, which is awarded annually on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest in the world. Rushdie will receive the award for “his insubordination of him, his optimistic approach to life and for enriching the world with his joy when it comes to telling stories,” the jury of the foundation that awards the award in the city on the banks of the river said on Monday. less. Although his life is in constant danger, Rushdie “is a passionate advocate of freedom of thought and speech,” whose novels and essays combine a tale of global perspectives with innovation, humor, and wisdom. “He is able to describe the violence with which dictatorial regimes destroy entire societies, but also the indestructible spirit of resistance of the individual,” says the official statement.
Since the publication in 1988 of his work the “Satanic Verses”, Rushdie lives under constant threat of death. The late spiritual leader and Iranian revolutionary Ayatollah Khomeini then called for the assassination of the Indian-British writer for blasphemy. In August of last year, Salman Rushdie was seriously injured when he was giving a conference in the United States when he was attacked by an emigrant of Lebanese origin of the Shiite religion who stabbed him several times in the neck, face, abdomen and arm. Half Iranians then celebrated the attack and that “Satan is on his way to hell.” The well-known writer underwent emergency surgery and, as a result of his injuries, he lost vision in his right eye and has problems managing with the hand he normally uses to write. He is currently writing a book about the attack suffered in the US town of Chautauqua.
“I can only thank the jury for their generosity,” Rushdie said upon learning of the award, according to a quote published by the jury, which he said was very honored. «I know the importance of this prize and I feel a little intimidated when contemplating the list of all the writers who have been awarded and to which my name now joins. It made me really happy,” said the writer. The German Booksellers Peace Prize is endowed with 25,000 euros and is awarded to great personalities from literature, science or art who have made a great contribution to the thought of peace. In the last edition, the Ukrainian author Serhuj Zhadan was awarded and in the long list of winners are from the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, including his Peruvian colleague Mario Vargas Llosa, the Spaniard Jorge Semprún or the Czech Václav Havel. The award will be delivered on October 22 in Frankfurt, coinciding with the closing of the Book Fair.
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