Author Salman Rushdie Leads Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honours List
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Queen's Birthday Honours: Salman Rushdie is named a Companion of Honour, an exclusive club with membership limited to just 65 people at any given time, for services to literature.
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel 'Midnight's Children', leads a list of over 40 professionals and community champions of Indian-origin to be honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Mr Rushdie is named a Companion of Honour, an exclusive club with membership limited to just 65 people at any given time, for services to literature in a list released yesterday night as the Jubilee Honours to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years of service to the UK.
"It's a privilege to be included in such illustrious company, both past and present," said the 74-year-old author, who was the subject of a fatwa by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini for his controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses' over 30 years ago.
The Companion of Honour is a special award granted to those who have made a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government lasting over a long period of time.
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