Title

Salman Rushdie on fatwa

Genre

Interview

TX Date

13 Feb 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:00:28

Description

Extract from an interview with author Salman Rushdie in which he says that he has paid a high price for publishing The Satanic Verses. The 44 year-old writer has been in hiding with a round-the-clock guard since the late Ayatollah Khomeini imposed a death sentence against him in 1989. Interviewer not heard. Broadcast on the BBC World Service Meridian programme; original catalogue record notes BBC copyright.

Contributors

BBC; Salman Rushdie

Keywords

Books; Authors; Iran; Religion; Writers; UK; Great Britain; International relations; Censorship; Novelists; Novels; Islam; Freedom of speech; Salman Rushdie; Ruhollah Khomeini; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa

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