Salman Rushdie earns a place in Queen's jubilee list, will be named 'Companion of Honour'

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Category : Awards Published on: June 06 2022

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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.
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.
Midnight's Children' was twice (1993 and 2008) voted Best of the Bookers by the public. He was knighted for services to literature in 2007.

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Salman Rushdie earns a place in Queen's jubilee list, will be named 'Companion of Honour'