6 months after stabbing, Salman Rushdie is back

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Author Salman Rushdie, marking his return to the literary world after a violent attack last year

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“I’ve always tried very hard not to adopt the role of a victim

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he recently told New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick

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The story marked Rushdie’s first interview since he was stabbed

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In 1989, Rushdie defied advice to lie low after Iran's late supreme leader

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, put a virtual contract on his life in response to his novel 

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which many Muslims found blasphemous or at least outrageously irreverent

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