Sir Salman Rushdie has said writing a book about his knife attack was a device to give him back “power” over his own life.
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's Knife is a reckoning with his reader, and it is written with resentment, writes Anna Moloney.
Salman Rushdie is opening up about the horrific attempt on his life in 2022
“Conversely, imagine “the enemy” as conceived by a man of ressentiment—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived “the evil enemy,” “the evil one”—and indeed as the fundamental concept frem which he then derives, as an afterimage and counterinstance, a “good one’—himself.” – Nietzsche Salman Rushdie is a funny guy. I wouldn’t say More
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Author also discusses prospect of second Trump presidency and writing about his stabbing in launch event for his book KnifeSalman Rushdie has warned young people against forgetting the value of free speech and discussed the “very big and negative” impact of a second Trump presidency in a rare public appearance since his stabbing.The Indian-born British-American author of books including the Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children also discussed the attack in 2022 that left him blind in one eye...
Author speaks at event for new book released after he narrowly avoided death when he was stabbed repeatedly on stage in 2022
A 19-year-old Sheffield man who threatened to kill a man in a violent group robbery has been jailed. In August 2023, Tyrese Tomlinson, of HMP Marshgate, was part of a group of men who approached a man sat in a parked car in the Firth Park area of Sheffield. The group brandished knives and threatened to kill the victim before telling him to get out of his car. The car, which was filled with personal and work items, was driven away by the gang with Tomlinson in the driver’s seat. Sign up for our...
They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermathI woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a stabbing on stage in Chautauqua, New York.This was the last morning, innocent and ordinary, before my life was shattered by the 27...
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The centrepiece of Salman Rushdie 's new memoir is a vivid but harrowing account of the recent savage knife attack that almost ended his life.