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Joseph Anton

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Joseph Anton
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On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie received a call from a BBC reporter informing him that Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced him to death. That's when the writer heard the word "fatwa" for the first time. He was accused that his novel "Shaitan Ayats" was "against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran". So begins the incredible story of how the writer was forced to go into hiding, moving from house to house, constantly under the protection of police officers. He was asked to come up with a pseudonym, a new name that the police could call him by. He thought of his favorite writers and chose the names Conrad and Chekhov. And Joseph Anton was born.
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