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Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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How the Fatwa Can Destroy Your Writing?

Three quarters of Joseph Anton's life as a writer has happened since the Fatwa. He refused to let the fatwa impinge on his imagination or writing. This is my 21st book, I don't know how many there are left but they're not another 21. People do seem to have got the point of this kind of writing in England and America.

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