Salman Rushdie recognised with lifetime achievement award

• Salman Rushdie has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize event in Ohio.
• This recognition follows the publication of his first work of fiction since he was brutally stabbed on a New York lecture stage in 2022.
• The prestigious prize celebrates both literary merit and writers' commitment to promoting peace through their work.
• Rushdie's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, led to a 1989 call for his death from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, forcing him into hiding.
• The award, also known as the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, is named after the American diplomat who helped architect the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords.

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Salman Rushdie honoured with Dayton peace prize lifetime achievement award