![]() ![]() It was a life transformed, but it was still a life, magnified for his fellow writers and for the reading world by the knowledge that this was a man who might literally die for the words he had written.Īnd he nearly did when he was repeatedly stabbed during an Aug. Rushdie traveled with security protection, often under the name Joseph Anton, which he later used as the title of a book about that part of his life. ![]() Another translator was attacked and wounded, as was the novel’s Norwegian publisher. The Japanese translator of his book was knifed to death. This, though, was a death decree, and Rushdie became a hunted man. ![]()
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