All of them were targets / intended targets . What was their ‘devilish’ crime ?
All of them translated/published Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ into various languages .
Hitoshi Igarashi ( A ) , the Japanese translator was stabbed to death , William Nygaard ( B ) , the Norwegian publisher survived an assassination attempt and so did celebrated Turkish author Aziz Nesin ( C ) , who was the intended target of the Sivas Massacre of 1993 .
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hitoshi igaraashi,aziz nesin ,william nygaard -all associated with rushdie’s satanic verses and its transalations..
Translated or helped to print Satanic verses..A Jap translator was actually killed.
They all translated Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses into local languages: Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese language translator of the book, stabbed to death; Ettore Capriolo, the Italian language translator, was seriously injured in a stabbing; Aziz Nesin, the Turkish language translator, was the intended target in the events that resulted in the deaths of 37 persons.
translators of the satanic verses
They were all connected to Salman Rushdie’s works (Satanic Verses etc.) for which they had to face the wrath
They translated ‘The Satanic Verses’
The Satanic Verses
As of early 2009 Rushdie has not been physically harmed, but others connected with the book have suffered violent attacks. Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese language translator of the book, was stabbed to death on July 11, 1991; Ettore Capriolo, the Italian language translator, was seriously injured in a stabbing the same month; William Nygaard, the publisher in Norway, barely survived an attempted assassination in Oslo in October 1993, and Aziz Nesin, the Turkish language translator, was the intended target in the events that led to the Sivas massacre on July 2, 1993 in Sivas, Turkey which resulted in the deaths of 37 persons.
They translated satanic verses into diferrent languages
translating/publishing satanic verses