With police protection , Rushdie escaped direct physical harm , but others associated with his book have suffered violent attacks . Hitoshi Igarashi , his Japanese translator , was stabbed to death on 11 July 1991 . , the Italian translator , was seriously injured in a stabbing in Milan on 3 July 1991 . William Nygaard , the publisher in Norway , was shot three times in an attempted assassination in Oslo in October 1993 , but survived . Aziz Nesin , the Turkish translator , was possibly the intended target in the events that led to the Sivas massacre on 2 July 1993 in Sivas , Turkey , which resulted in 37 deaths
Sivas massacre
Sivas massacre
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