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Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Fatwa - The New Yorker Radio Hour

Salman Rushdie went into hiding after Midnight's Children was published in 1988. He says he rebelled against forsterion English, which is cool and meticulous. After a decade though in 2000, Rushdie moved to the U.S., where he now works as president of Pan-American Center. "There was a me floating around that had been invented to show what a bad person I was with"

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