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Salman Rushdie and the incitement of violence

15 August 2022

3:28 PM

15 August 2022

3:28 PM

When I met Salman Rushdie in New York a couple of years ago, he told me that the days in which he feared physical attack were long behind him. ‘It only affects my life when I talk to journalists,’ he said, a little pertly. ‘It is 20 years since I required any form of protection.

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