Multiple choice general knowledge

In the late 1980s what Booker Prize-winning author was forced to go into hiding because a price was put on his head?

  1. William Goldman

  2. Salman Rushedie

  3. Dr.Seuss

  4. Taslima Nasrin

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Salman Rushdie went into hiding in the late 1980s after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death due to his novel The Satanic Verses (1988). He won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children in 1981.