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      • After living in hiding, Rushdie says it was essential for him to be visible while living in New York, to reclaim his existence.
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    On 14 February 1989—Valentine's Day, and also the day of his close friend Bruce Chatwin 's funeral—a fatwā ordering Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme leader of Iran at the time, calling the book " blasphemous against Islam".

  4. time.com › 6270878Salman Rushdie Interview About the Attack and His Next Book ...

    Apr 13, 2023 · Salman Rushdie is back at his desk, savoring the acclaim for his most recent work and bending to the next—his account of the attack that nearly killed him last summer on a stage in...

  5. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresSalman Rushdie has opened doors between real and imagined ...

    Aug 15, 2022 · Seven years ago I asked Rushdie how his life was now. It was 26 years after the Ayatollah of Iran had responded to his Booker-shortlisted novel, The Satanic Verses, by calling for Rushdie’s death, causing the murder of some of his collaborators and leading him to live under continuous police protection for nine years.

  6. www.cbc.ca › radio › ideas3 hinge moments in the storied life of Salman Rushdie

    Apr 30, 2024 · It's a memoir of physical and psychological recovery following a brutal 2022 knife attack at the hands of an assailant, during a public literary event in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie has...

  7. www.newstatesman.com › the-weekend-interview › 2024Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”

    Apr 27, 2024 · Salman Rushdie’s 22nd book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, is his account of the attack on 12 August 2022 that nearly took his life, but it is much more than that: it is a book about love and optimism and miracles of many kinds.

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  9. www.theglobeandmail.com › arts › booksSalman Rushdie on the attack that nearly killed him and the ...

    Apr 24, 2024 · Since Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s late theocratic leader, issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death over his depictions of the prophet Mohammed in the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the writer...

  10. www.pbs.org › newshour › showSalman Rushdie reflects on attack that changed his life in ...

    Apr 23, 2024 · August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie, one of the world's best-known writers, was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife. Now Rushdie has written of that harrowing day and all that's...