Salman Rushdie is opening up about the horrific attempt on his life in 2022
Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for the Indian-born writer's assassination. Rushdie went into hiding with around the clock police protection for 10 years. He eventually moved to the U.S. and thought he was safe. But in August 2022, as he was about to speak at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York, Salman Rushdie was attacked by a...
The Booker Prize-winning author, who was stabbed in New York in 2022, has given his first TV interview about the assault, describing how his attacker came in 'hard and low - a squat missile'.
Salman Rushdie tells us that he wrote Knife, his account of his near-murder
In first TV interview since his stabbing, writer tells how knifeman was ‘last thing my right eye would ever see’Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.”“It felt like something coming out of the distant past and trying to drag me back in time, if you like, back into that distant past, in order to kill me,” said the Indian-born British-American author of books including The Satanic Verses and...
“Beauty is its own excuse for Being,” Emerson once wrote. In contrast, an
Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains.
British-American author Salman Rushdie recounts the near-fatal stabbing at a public event in 2022 that left him blind in one eye and his journey to healing in his new memoir "Knife," which hits stores Tuesday.In an interview with CBS program "60 Minutes" ahead of the release of "Knife," Rushdie recounted he had dreamed two days before the attack of being stabbed in an amphitheater -- and considered not attending the event.
Sir Salman Rushdie on the stabbing attack. Sir Salman Rushdie has spoken in
Jon Rahm is the defending champion as the fight for the green jacket gets underway at Augusta National
Several divisions will race for significantly larger prizes in this edition of the historic marathon.
Naomi Osaka says she is "embracing the clay a lot more now" as she captured her first victory on the surface since 2022 in the Madrid Open first round on Wednesday. The Japanese former world number one grew up playing on hard courts in the United States and has mostly