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During the height of a controversy, this person made a surprise appearance on U2’s Zooropa tour. Events surrounding this person led to the title cold case of Norwegian journalist Odd Isungset’s 2010 book Who Shot William Nygaard? Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov inspired this person’s alias (20[3])Joseph (20[2])Anton. (20[9])Hitoshi (20[1])Igarashi (20[2])was found murdered (20[1])at Japan’s Tsukuba University just a few days after (20[1])another (*) translator of this person, (10[1])Ettore Capriolo, was killed in Italy. (10[1])While giving a speech (10[1])at New York’s (10[1])Chautauqua (10[1])(“shuh-TAWK-wah”) Institute in August 2022, (10[1])this (10[1])person was stabbed (10[2])by Hadi (10[2])Matar. (10[1]0[2])In 1989, (10[1])Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against, for 10 points, (10[1])what author of The Satanic Verses? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Salman Rushdie [accept the Rushdie Affair; or L’affaire Rushdie]
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