LIVE from the NYPL: OPENING NIGHT! From Fatwa to Freedom: SALMAN RUSHDIE in conversation with Paul Holdengräber: FREE EVENT!

So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton.

 

In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Salman Rushdie will discuss the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.

 

SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of eleven novels, including Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feat, and The Enchantress of Florence. He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and several works of non-fiction.

 

 

 

 

 

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