I am a novelist and essayist and have just been appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to literature" which has "thrilled and humbled" me. My style of writing can best be summed up as "magic Realism", but i will be staying away from religious themes in future after the last shenannagins. I have won the following awards and prizes.* Booker Prize for Fiction * James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) * Arts Council Writers' Award * English-Speaking Union Award * Booker of Bookers or the best novel among the Booker Prize winners for Fiction * Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger * Whitbread Novel Award (twice) * Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Children's Fiction * Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Sweden)< * Prix Colette (Switzerland) * State Prize for Literature (Austria) * Author of the Year (British Book Awards) * Author of the Year (Germany) * Mantua Prize (Italy) * Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) * Hutch Crossword Fiction Prize (India) * India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award (USA) * Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism (Harvard University) * Aristeion Prize (European Union)Downrater AlertHere is the evidence and she says she is 33 to ! LMFAOWall of shame number 9*Psychotic...: LMFAO You are as ignorant as the rest of the fucktards in your country lol God I hope the US bombs the shit out of India one dayIgnorant ? ummm talking about the kettle calling the pan black.«†ŠhÃdoWš†...: You don't have the right your not god..or anyone important...if you really want to know what I think of you...Your a discusting excuse for a human being. Who things he's all that but to be honest...your not shit...and if you think your good looking...let me tell you something dear...when I gave you a 1 that was because they didn't have a 0...you sure aren't anything to write home about...you make me ill...All i did was ask her if her hair had escaped from the 80's some people are so touchy these days. I love idiots who bitch at how i look, it's so choice.