He took the first names of two of his favorite writers - “Joseph,” from Conrad, and “Anton,” from Chekhov. and the U.S.Īt the beginning of the fatwa years, Rushdie was asked by security officers to come up with an alias. Rushdie himself spent about ten years in hiding, living in a bewildering succession of makeshift safe-houses all over the U.K. In the years after the Ayatollah’s declaration, bookstores were bombed, the book’s Japanese translator was killed, its Italian translator survived a stabbing, and its Norwegian publisher survived a shooting. Rushdie’s novel, which had come out a few months earlier, is about exile and identity and includes – but isn’t focused on – a story about the Prophet Mohammed. Khomeini called on “the proud Muslim people of the world” to kill the author of “The Satanic Verses,” and all people involved in its publication. On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini introduced a new word to many people in the western world: “fatwa.” OPB’s Think Out Loud is bringing back a conversation we had with Salman Rushdie in 2013 after he’d written a memoir about the most famous period of his life. He was repeatedly stabbed and remains hospitalized, though, according to his agent, he is on the road to recovery.Įarlier this week, a 24-year-old man pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges. A week ago, the renowned writer Salman Rushdie was attacked before an event in New York state.
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