Salman Rushdie: The writer out of hiding

August 13, 2022

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Salman Rushdie, in front of King’s College Chapel in Cambridge in 1993.

Indian-born novelist Sir Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed while performing in New York, has received death threats over his work during a five-decade literary career.

Many of the 75-year-old’s books have been hugely successful, with his second novel, Midnight’s Children, winning the Booker Prize in 1981.

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But it was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, that became his most controversial work – sparking international turmoil unprecedented in scale.

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