Salman Rushdie won a literary prize.
"On 14 February 1989Valentine's Day, and also the day of his close friend Bruce Chatwin's funerala fatw ordering Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme leader of Iran at the time, calling the book "blasphemous against Islam"
 He wrote in his 2012 memoir that his father adopted the name Rushdie in honour of Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

