Twenty eight years after The Satanic Verses was first published, Iran has renewed its efforts in the fatwa issued against author Salman Rushdie.
Salman Rushdie said that if a fatwa calling for his murder had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his life.
In a South Africa exclusive, M&G books editor Darryl Accone speaks to award-winning writer Salman Rushdie about his new memoir ‘Joseph Anton’.
Salman Rushdie, author of ‘The Satanic Verses’, is the subject of an Iranian computer game aimed at spreading the message about his "sin".
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/ 11 January 2012
<i>The Satanic Verses</i> author’s latest visit to his Indian homeland has angered some Muslim clerics.
A novel about Aisha, the child bride of the Prophet Muhammad, has been withdrawn because its publisher feared possible terrorist acts by extremists.