Salman Rushdie
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469 appearances
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2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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I don't know.
Maybe somebody else could apply for the job.
I just, you know, I'm in favour of free speech.
That's my position.
But I've talked about it so much that I'd sooner just talk about my work, you know.
Well, it was hard.
I mean, in the immediate aftermath of the attack,
I couldn't even think about fiction.
But once I'd dealt with that by writing The Memoir Knife, I mean, even before the memoir came out, it was just like a little door in my head opened up and the story started coming out again.
And I was incredibly relieved that they did, because I was for a while worried that they might not.
But here they are again.
Yeah.
Why do you think they might have stopped?
Well, just because there was this other huge thing to deal with, you know, and it was just taking up all my available space
thinking space.
And I knew that the only way to get past it was to go through it.
And that's what I did by writing the memoir.
But really, it was almost joyful to get back to fiction because, you know, even though I've written my share of nonfiction, I think of myself as a fiction writer.
That's why I became a writer.
I became a writer to tell stories, to make things up.
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