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...bomb literally blew him to pieces in Ankara, Turks naturally suspected radical fundamentalists. Ozgen Acar, his editor at Cumhuriyet, the newspaper where Mumcu had worked for the past 18 years, said the murder was the work of agents sent from Iran, "the same people who are after Salman Rushdie...
...clumps of grass as he talks, and now and then turning off the tape recorder with a desultory toe. Already this week he's been to Idaho and Colorado to attend a conference on freedom of speech and the American novel. He's enjoyed a "very nice evening" with Salman Rushdie and turned in a 132-page manuscript to Conde Nast Traveler on his recent trip to eastern Nepal, from which he brought back photographs of prints that may support the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman. He has two books just off the presses -- on Siberia and Africa...
...gained considerable acclaim before, most notably for his one-of-a-kind memoir of colonial Ceylon, Running in the Family. He has also established himself as one of the most inspired chroniclers, and exemplars, of the new cross-cultural mix taking shape all around us, able to light up Salman Rushdie-land with a visual daring that must have moviemakers salivating. Two weeks ago, The English Patient won England's prestigious Booker Prize, sharing the award for best novel of the year with Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger...
Fictions that get mixed up in politics -- or religion -- can become dangerous. Salman Rushdie has reason to know this: sitting alone with his imagination, he conjured up a story, The Satanic Verses, that has had him in hiding, under an ayatullah's fatwa, a sentence of death, for the past 3 1/2 years. But as Rushdie has said, "The idea that writers should not argue about the world and simply write their little stories is a defeat...
INTERVIEW Hounded author Salman Rushdie pleads not to be forgotten...