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Salman Rushdie releasing a memoir about knife attack

Updated on: 12 October,2023 08:11 AM IST  |  New York
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Last August, Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and abdomen by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in New York. The attacker, Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to assault and attempted murder charges

Salman Rushdie releasing a memoir about knife attack

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’ will be published April 16. “This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art,” Rushdie said in a statement released Wednesday by Penguin Random House.


Last August, Salman Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and abdomen by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in New York. The attacker, Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to assault and attempted murder charges.


For some time after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death over alleged blasphemy in his novel ‘The Satanic Verses’, the writer lived in isolation and with round-the-clock security. But for years since, he had moved about with few restrictions, until the stabbing at the Chautauqua Institution.


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