Story of life under fatwa is possibility: Rushdie

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LONDON (AFP) — Booker prize-winning British author Salman Rushdie said in an interview broadcast Monday that he may one day write a book about his life under an Iranian decree calling for his death.

Asked by the BBC about his personal safety, Rushdie, who was given a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II last year, said it had "been alright for quite a long time."

"The bad period was, roughly speaking, nine years long, and it's now been actually nine years since then, so it does feel like an earlier chapter and now, new chapter," the 61-year-old said.

The broadcaster then questioned him as to whether he would write a book on that time in his life, to which he replied: "At the time, really, it was just a struggle to try and get through it and somehow get beyond...