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The British author Salman Rushdie was in Canada for the first time since he was sentenced to death almost four years ago for writing The Satanic Verses. Rushide talks about his life, faith, and writing.

Thirty years after Salman Rushdie's interview with Eleanor Wachtel during his secret visit to Canada in 1992, Writers & Company pays special tribute to the author, revisiting conversations with Rushdie in 1992 and 2015.

Live onstage at the Banff Centre - Eleanor talks with Salman Rushdie about his 12th novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, inspired by 1001 Nights. Like Scheherazade, Rushdie, the irrepressible storyteller, has also lived on the brink of destruction.