The award to the Writer gave the crown Princess Mary of Denmark. The writer gave $90 thousand And a statuette of " the Ugly duckling " Danish sculptor Steen Ring Hansen. As stated in the circulation Department, Rushdie received the Award due to the fact that he " incomparable Creator, who talks about the importance of travel and cultural exchange through the global mixing realism and fairy-tale fantasy ". before the award was Paulo Coelho, JK Rowling, Isabel Allende. Salman Rushdie 67 years, he is the Creator of such books As " the Children of midnight ", " Shalimar the Clown ", " Farewell sigh of the moor ". The novel Rushdie " Satanic verses " (1988) had provoked the protest of Muslims. After its publication, the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini publicly cursed Rushdie and sentenced him to death by the hands of any of the Muslims.