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The reason I was so surprised by this is that being knighted for being an author is an incredibly rare thing. In fact I can think of only one other author it's happened to - Arthur Conan Doyle, although I'm sure there must be a few other examples. People with titles quite often write books (eg Baronness Orczy, Sir Henry Rider Haggard), but to be given a title for being an author is just amazingly rare. I'm very pleased for Mr Rushdie - he's had to put up with a lot of bad stuff.
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