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– Salman Rushdie takes up the pen to fight
In “The Knife”, the author of “Satanic Verses” targeted by an Iranian fatwa since 1989 returns to the attack of which he was the victim in 2022.
Published: 04/16/2024, 6:16 p.m.
Salman Rushdie receiving the Václav Havel Library Foundation First Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Tuesday, November 14, 2023, in New York.
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“I never saw the knife or at least I have no memory of it. I don’t know if it was long or short, had a wide blade like Bowie hunting knives or narrow like a stiletto, a serrated bread knife, a curved crescent-shaped blade, a switchblade knife. street urchin arrest or even an ordinary carving knife stolen from his mother’s kitchen. I do not care. It was quite effective, this invisible weapon, and it accomplished its task.”