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The Independent UK
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Kerri-Ann Roper

Sir Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s a privilege to be included in illustrious company’

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Sir Salman Rushdie has told of his “great surprise and delight” as he is to receive a prestigious honour for his services to literature.

The author, 74, of titles such as The Satanic Verses, Midnight’s Children and 2019’s Quichotte, has been made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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