Salman Rushdie is this year’s recipient of the Mailer Prize for lifetime achievement.
The author of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses and other novels was presented his award by Laurie Anderson at a ceremony at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the New York City borough where Norman Mailer was raised and lived off and on until his death in 2007.
About Salman Rushdie
Mr Rushdie was born on 19 June 1947 in then Bombay Presidency (now Mumbai). He has authored 12 novels including the Booker Prize winner novel Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses.
His most recent novel is Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, published in September 2015.
He is a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, Britain’s senior literary organisation.
Awards and Honours: Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), Writers’ Guild Award, European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, London International Writers’ Award and US National Arts Award.
He holds honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American universities. He is also an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at MIT and University Distinguished Professor at Emory University.
About Mailer Prize
Mailer Prize is an American literary award established in 2009 by The Norman Mailer Center.
The prize is named after renowned American writer Norman Mailer who is considered among the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th century.
It is awarded to writer whose work over the years has challenged readers’ perspectives on the world around them.
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