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Cake day: October 26th, 2023

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  • Salman Rushdie. British-Indian writer. Won the Booker prize for Midnight’s Children. Was condemned by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini for blasphemy for his next book The Satanic Verses. Sentenced to death. Spent decades living in hiding. Finally coming out of his seclusion in NYC.

    Several translators were murdered by Islamic radicals. In 2022 Rushdie himself was attacked on stage and stabbed repeatedly. Lost an eye and use of one hand.

    He’s a master class writer of magical realism and definitely one of my favorites.