Salman Rushdie receives first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award

Sir Salman Rushdie receives the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation’s first ever lifetime Disturbing the Peace award (Invision/AP)

The latest honour for writer Sir Salman Rushdie was a prize kept secret until minutes before he rose from his seat to accept it in New York City.

On Tuesday night, the Satanic Verses author received the first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award, presented by the Vaclav Havel Centre on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.