Salman Rushdie gets knighted. Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday knighted the controversial author Salman Rushdie, an award which caused protests by Muslims around the world when it was announced last year. Rushdie was knighted for his services to literature. The Indian-born writer has spent the last 18 years living under the shadow of an Iranian fatwa calling for his death, which has never been formally revoked, over his controversial novel The Satanic Verses.

?I really have no regrets about any of my work,? Rushdie said. Rushdie, 61, published his first novel, Grimus, in 1975. Success came with his next book, Midnight?s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Rushdie was forced to accept round-the-clock protection after The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. The Iranian government withdrew the death sentence in 1988.

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