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- Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. Rushdie recounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life.
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. [1] Rushdie recounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life.
- Salman Rushdie
- 2012
Oct 12, 2012 · Salman Rushdie invented a new self, “Joseph Anton,” as he hid from a murderous fatwa.
Joseph Anton is the story of Salman Rushdie’s life during the fatwa, as defined by the years in which the British Police insisted his life needed Special Branch protection. The name Joseph Anton is one the police forced him to invent and use for his own protection. To be addressed as Joe in his own home always disconcerted him.
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Mar 26, 2010 · Joseph Anton – A Memoir. On 14 February 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been ‘sentenced to death’ by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word ‘fatwa.’. His crime?
Sep 10, 2013 · Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between [moments] of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom to say what he or she wants.” — The Boston Globe “A gripping, firsthand account of an important battle for artistic freedom.”
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- Salman Rushdie
Joseph Anton is Salman Rushdie’s memoir of life after hearing a fatwa that called for his death had been issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. His crime was writing The Satanic Verses, a novel. Joseph Anton is the new name he chose as he went into hiding, a combination of two of his favourite writers, Anton Chekhov and Joseph Conrad ...
To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced...
