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Rushdie to pen down memoirs of days spent in hiding from the death fatwa BOOKER Award Indian-origin novelist Salman Rushdie has said he plans to pen down his experiences of a decade of hiding from a death fatwa from the Iranian clergy.
The novelist of The Satanic Verses fame unfolded his plans to write about his dark days under death threat at Atlanta's Emory University, where an exhibit of his personal papers opened recently. Rushdie, 62, was forced into hiding in 1989 for a decade after Iran's late spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini ordered Muslims to kill him for his book The Satanic Verses, terming it as an insult to Islam. The Iranian Government said in 1989 that it no longer supported the fatwa but could not rescind it. "It's my story and at some point it does need to get told," Rushdie told a press conference prior to the opening of his exhibits. "My instinct is that point is getting closer, I think when it was in the cardboard boxes and dead computers, it would have been very difficult, but now its all organised," the novelist and author of the runaway bestseller Midnight's Children said. Islamic groups still
continue to lodge protest against the famed author who was knighted in
2007, but Rushdie said the death fatwa is now only more of a
rhetoric than a threat. — PTI
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