![]() Titled for Rushdie’s alias during his years in hiding (an amalgam of the first names of two of his favourite writers, Conrad and Chekhov), Joseph Anton has a varied, ambitious agenda. Twelve years later, of course, the “Rushdie Affair” would come to seem like a dress rehearsal for what Rushdie himself calls “the main event.” In the years to come it would become a household word, one inextricably linked to the writer previously famous for his 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children. The day took a drastic turn for the worse, however, when a BBC reporter called to inform Rushdie that, as a result of perceived insults to Islam in his book The Satanic Verses, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced him to death.īefore that call, Rushdie, like most people in the West, had never heard the term fatwa. ![]() His second wife, the American novelist Marianne Wiggins, had recently declared she was unhappy in their marriage. Valentine’s Day 1989 started inauspiciously for Salman Rushdie. ![]()
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