Rushdie receives Mailer Prize for lifetime achievement
Salman Rushdie is this year’s recipient of the Mailer Prize for lifetime achievement.
The author of “Midnight’s Children,” ”The Satanic Verses” and other novels was presented his award by Laurie Anderson at a ceremony Thursday night at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the New York City borough where Norman Mailer was raised and lived off and on until his death in 2007.
“It’s kind of great to be standing here in Norman Mailer’s shadow,” Rushdie said.