Salman Rushdie Pratt Memorial Hall

Author Salman Rushdie will be presented the Pratt Institute’s Mailer Center Lifetime Achievement Award in a night of literary honors this week.

Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses provoked death threats from several Muslim countries and a fatwa for his assassination in Iran. His most recent work is the novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, which was published in September.

“To die for an idea that is serious literature in a world of dwindling uncertainties and choked-up ecologies is the absolute we have to defend,” the late Norman Mailer said of Rushdie in 1988.

The ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 10 at Pratt’s Memorial Hall Auditorium.

The event will also honor the winners of this year’s Norman Mailer Student and Teacher Writing Awards, and include a discussion between Rushdie and literary critic Randy Boyagoda, as well as readings by award winners.

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is first come, first served, and an RSVP is required. To register, visit Pratt’s website.

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