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Ian McEwan gave shelter to Salman Rushdie after fatwa issued

In 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then the supreme leader of Iran, declared that it the religious duty of all Muslims to ensure Rushdie was "sent to hell" for allegedly blaspheming Muhammad in his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.

Rushdie was forced underground for nearly a decade and although he was not harmed, the book's Japanese translator was murdered.

Now it has been disclosed that shortly after the fatwa was issued, Rushdie hid away with McEwan in the Cotswolds.

The story of McEwan's role in Rushdie's internal exile is published in next week's issue of the New Yorker...

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)