On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie, one of the world’s best-known writers, was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife. Rushdie has written of that harrowing day and all that’s followed in a new book. He discussed it with Jeffrey Brown for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Salman Rushdie is opening up about the horrific attempt on his life in 2022
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Sir Salman Rushdie has said writing a book about his knife attack was a device to give him back “power” over his own life.
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Back in the day, Salman Rushdie used to joke that the argument over The Satanic Verses, his satirical novel caricaturing Prophet Muhammad, was a “quarrel between those with a sense of humour and those without one”.But, lately, his mood has darkened and he has become less forgiving of his critics, judging from his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a cathartic account of the murderous attack on him at a literary event in upstate New York in the summer of 2022.It left him with...
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