Salman Rushdie and Roberto Saviano
got a standing ovation at the Turin Book Fair Friday.
The Anglo-Indian novelist and the anti-mafia writer, who was set
to interview Rushdie on Knife, his account of the attack in New
York that led him to lose sight in one eye and the use of one
hand, were greeted with the ovation as they entered the
Auditorium of the Lingotto congress centre.
"I want to tell you how much we have longed for this meeting, we
are thrilled to have him here in Italy for the first time after
the attack," said the director of the Book Fair, Annalena
Benini.
"With Saviano, it is a meeting between writers, between friends,
they have been close for many years, it is a meeting of
freedom."
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