Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
Chautauqua’s lectures and performances drew hundreds of people with their promise of self-transformation.
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Rushdie’s books have inspired generations of readers and writers – and a recent attempt to kill him.
People gather at a vigil pray and observe a moment of silence after an attack on author Salman Rushdie on Aug. 12, 2022, in Chautauqua, New York.
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The attack on Salman Rushdie promptly led to speculation on whether the attacker had been influenced by the 1989 fatwa against the author. A scholar explains what a fatwa is, and isn’t.
The author Salman Rushdie has been stabbed at a talk in New York in the US.
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Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
Author Salman Rushdie pictured in London in 2017.
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