![]() ![]() ![]() And on a craft level, he said, Rushdie “is a master of doing this sprawling, big-picture fiction that includes a host of characters, and is really about showing your virtuosity.” ![]() The Satanic Verses has “become a symbol of freedom of speech,” said Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man. His books are taught in universities and sold in bookstores. The threats against Rushdie never went away, but fell into the cultural backdrop. The Japanese translator of the novel, Hitoshi Igarashi, was murdered in 1991. Khomeini’s condemnation led to booksellers in Europe and the United States being firebombed and publishers receiving persistent bomb threats. For a decade following, Rushdie lived underground as the book caused a firestorm. Rushdie has faced death threats for more than three decades, since the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Rushdie in 1989 and called for his death over purported blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses, which satirized Islamic histories and mythologies with magical realism. The violent attack on free speech has left Rushdie in the hospital and revived concerns around the perils facing artists who take risks. Novelist Salman Rushdie walked on stage at a summer festival at the Chautauqua Institution in New York to speak on Friday and was stabbed 10 times by an assailant. ![]()
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