Rushdie to write of decade in hiding
ATLANTA ,NOVELIST SALMAN Rushdie said he plans to write a book about his decade in hiding under a death threat from the Iranian government.Rushdie discussed the planned book on Tuesday at Emory University, where an exhibit of the author’s personal papers opens on Friday.
He donated manuscripts, letters and photos to the school, which catalogued them and transferred them to digital form. “It’s my story, and at some point, it needs to be told,” he said during a news conference before touring the exhibit with reporters. “That point is getting closer, I think. When it was in cardboard boxes and dead computers, it would have been very, very difficult, but now it’s all organised.”Rushdie, 62, was forced into hiding in Britain for a decade because the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, ordering Muslims to kill the author, saying his book, The Satanic Verses, insulted Islam. The Iranian government declared in 1998 that it would not support the fatwa but could not rescind it. —AP
DORIE TURNER
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