Nigella Lawson
(Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images)Friends of Sir Salman Rushdie gathered last night at the British Library to celebrate his work, at an event organised by English PEN.
Rushdie has lived under threat for decades after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa over his novel The Satanic Verses. In August he was stabbed on stage. The suspect had reportedly read two pages of the book.
