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Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Douglas Stuart talk to Alex Clark

Salman Rushdie Panel: Victory City

Hay Festival 2023, 

One of Britain’s greatest living storytellers, Salman Rushdie is back with a magical realist feminist tale in Victory City, a novel presented as an abridged translation of a fictitious and previously lost Sanskrit verse saga. The novel’s final line, “words are the only victors”, seems more relevant than ever following a brutal attack on Rushdie in 2022, which left him injured. Three of his friends and admirers – novelists Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Douglas Stuart – speak to journalist and editor Alex Clark about the power of Rushdie’s storytelling and celebrate the wonder of Victory City.

Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Douglas Stuart talk to Alex Clark