Salman Rushdie has received a lifetime achievement award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize event after publishing his first work of fiction since being stabbed on a New York stage three years ago.

The Ohio event honours both literary merit and the writers' promotion of peace through their work, with separate awards annually for fiction, nonfiction and lifetime achievement.

The 78-year-old Rushdie is best known for his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, which includes a dream sequence about the Prophet Mohammed that prompted allegations of blasphemy and a 1989 call from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for the writer's death, driving him into hiding.

He was blinded in one eye from the 2022 attack before a stunned audience, and his assailant - who wasn't born when The Satanic Verses was p

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