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Salman Rushdie: Media

British-American writer

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Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie, author of such works as Midnight's Children (1981), Shame...
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Salman Rushdie, 2024
In 2022 the writer Salman Rushdie was attacked with a knife while onstage at a literary...
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