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PARIS, Oct 16, 2008 (AFP) – British writer Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for years after an Islamic death threat, said Thursday that the Italian author of a book on organised crime is in far greater danger than he himself ever was.
“I met Roberto Saviano in New York in April. He’s an extremely pleasant, very intelligent man, but he’s in great danger,” he told France Info radio.
Saviano, the author of “Gomorrah,” said Wednesday he plans to flee his native Italy after learning that the Naples-area organised crime gang, the Camorra, wants him dead by the end of the year.
Rushdie said that “in April in New York, the FBI believed he was already in danger, because there is the mafia in the United States too.”
“Things are worse” for Saviano than for him, Rushdie said. “The mafia poses a much bigger problem than the one I had to face.”
Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses,” published 20 years ago, earned him an Islamic death threat and forced him to live in hiding under police protection for nearly a decade.
Some 1.2 million copies of Saviano’s book have sold in Italy.
Filmmaker Matteo Garrone’s screen version of the book won a major prize at the Cannes film festival in May and is in the running for an Oscar.
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If you don’t already have a ticket to see Khaled Hosseini on Friday night, you could always try your luck on eBay. Hosseini, the best-selling author of “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” opens Guilford College’s Bryan Series season. Under the theme, “Thinking Globally,” the lineup includes international best-selling novelist Sir Salman Rushdie, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist …
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Why Is He Famous? Salman Rushdie became a household name in 1988 with the publication of The Satanic Verses , a highly controversial book that angered many readers who found its references to Islam and the prophet Muhammad blasphemous.