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Watch: Salman Rushdie on the moment he was attacked on stage, and why he felt lonely

9:45am April 17, 2024

Salman Rushdie is a storyteller. So when you ask him to describe the day, in 2022, when he was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife, Rushdie paints a vivid picture.

Author Salman Rushdie responds to questions during a news interview for the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala Thursday, May 18, 2023, in New York.

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PEN America gala honors Salman Rushdie, his first in-person appearance since stabbing

1:51am May 19, 2023

by The Associated Press

Rushdie, whose attendance had not been announced beforehand, spoke briefly, and dedicated some of his remarks to those who came to his help last August while on stage at a New York literary festival.

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Salman Rushdie's 'Victory City' is a triumph, independent of the Chautauqua attack

4:25pm February 07, 2023

by Bilal Qureshi

Rushdie submitted the final edits for his 15th novel before he was stabbed onstage in August 2022. It tells the story of a sorceress and poet who dreams a civilization into existence from magic seeds.

At a rally outside the New York Public Library, writers including Paul Auster and Gay Talese read passages from Salman Rushdie's work. His assailant has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges after being accused of stabbing Rushdie during a litera

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Paul Auster, Aasif Mandvi and others support Salman Rushdie with public readings

2:10pm August 19, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Writers Jeffrey Eugenides, Roya Hakakian, Kiran Desai, Tina Brown, Gay Talese and others gave live readings from the author's work as he recovered from a brutal attack.

Defense attorney Nathaniel Barone (left) and Hadi Matar, who was charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie, listen during an arraignment Thursday in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, N.Y.

A judge denies bail for the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie

4:51pm August 18, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Chautauqua County district attorney said that Hadi Matar stabbed the author a dozen times in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye, before he could be stopped by shocked bystanders.

Iran denies involvement but justifies Salman Rushdie attack

5:27am August 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

An Iranian government spokesperson added that Iran did not "have any other information more than what the American media has reported."

Author Salman Rushdie was attacked on a lecture stage in New York

7:54pm August 12, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Rushdie was apparently stabbed in the neck by an attacker who rushed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution. The suspect was taken into custody and Rushdie was transported to a nearby hospital.

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If Salman Rushdie's 'Quichotte' Drives You Nuts — That's Fine. It's Meant To

8:02am September 07, 2019

by Jason Sheehan

It could be argued that Quichotte is a novel that aims to reflect back to us the total insanity of living in a world unmoored from reality — but it's about the power of believing more than anything.

Clockwise from top left: Quichotte by Salman Rushdie; Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann; An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma; 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak; Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo; and The Testame

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Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie Headline 2019 Booker Prize Shortlist

4:11pm September 03, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Atwood made the list for her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, and Rushdie for his reimagining of Don Quixote. Chigozie Obioma, Elif Shafak, Lucy Ellmann and Bernardine Evaristo round out the finalists.