Antonia Fraser on her hero, Salman Rushdie, winner of the 2014 PEN Pinter prize
1 min readAntonia Fraser remembers when Salman Rushdie and her late husband, Harold Pinter, played cricket: The Guardian

Harold Pinter, my late husband, admired Salman Rushdie’s work enormously, long before he met him. He thought Midnight’s Children was a wonderful book (although his favourite was The Satanic Verses, which he read, incidentally, long before the troubles). We first met Salman in February 1982, at a protest outside the Polish embassy mounted by PEN in favour of Solidarity. Afterwards, we all went to the pub and a real friendship grew, which was very important to Harold.
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