1. Rushdie knighted in honours list

Comment #50667 by Sianodel on June 19, 2007 at 10:23 am

on the BBC's 'Newsnight' program last night I was confronted with a Labour peer who suggested that instead of honouring Salman Rushdie we should be honouring J.K. Rowling!To compare the literary merit of J.K. Rowling with that of Salman Rushdie is absurd.Salman Rushdie is an extremely influential author, whatever your opinion of his work you cannot deny that he has fostered a whole generation of British-Asian writers and their readers. Would there be a Vikram Seth or an Arundhati Roy without him? You can be sure that these authors and many others like them would never have been so successful without 'Midnight's Children'.