Salman Rushdie
Indian-British-American novelist (born 1947)
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🇺🇸 2/8/2026: The Indomitable Margaret Atwood; Knife; Officially Amazing
First, Margaret Atwood: The 60 Minutes Interview. Then, Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview. And, a look at the system behind Guinness World Reco...
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview
Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing a book about it, "Knife." He detailed the experience i...
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie on the 2022 knife attack that nearly took his life
Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing a book about it, "Knife." He detailed the experience i...
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie reads excerpts from his new book "Knife"
In his book "Knife," Salman Rushdie writes about the 2022 attempt on his life -- where he was stabbed 15 times and lost his right eye....
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🇺🇸 Rushdie's message to "the man who failed to kill an unarmed 75- year-old writer"
Salman Rushdie's message to his assailant: "Our lives touched each other for an instant and then separated. Mine has improved since that day, while yo...
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🇺🇸 "My body was dying, and it was taking me with it," says Rushdie
"There was nothing supernatural about it. No 'tunnel of light.' No feeling of rising out of my body," says Salman Rushdie, describing his near-death e...
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🇺🇸 Rushdie: "The last thing my right eye would ever see"
Salman Rushdie describes what he saw in the moments before he was attacked at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York....
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie’s Assailant
"I do not want to use his name in this account," author Salman Rushdie said of his assailant. In his book "Knife" he refers to the attacker as "the A....
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🇺🇸 Rushdie: "He was just stabbing wildly"
"There was the knife in the eye. That was the cruellest blow, and it was a deep wound. The blade went in all the way to the optic nerve, which meant t...
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🇺🇸 Rushdie's first thought before a near-fatal attack
Salman Rushdie says he thought "So it's you. Here you are" as a man with a knife brutally attacked him....
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🇺🇸 Rushdie: "They were looking at what I couldn’t see: me"
After being stabbed 15 times, Salman Rushdie's face was slashed open. In his book "Knife," he says his face looked like "a sci-fi movie special effect...
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🇺🇸 Rushdie on his reflection in the mirror
"The lips of the man in the mirror do not move. There is a slash across the top of his forehead," Salman Rushdie writes in his book "Knife."...
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🇺🇸 Why Salman Rushdie wrote "Knife"
"I would answer violence with art," says author Salman Rushdie. He felt he needed to write "Knife" to own what happened – refusing to be a mere victim...
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie on censorship in America today
Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie says the attack on free expression now comes from both the left and the right....
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🇺🇸 The most upsetting thing about the attack for Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie shares what he found most upsetting about a knife attack that nearly killed him....
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- 👤 The Satanic Verses (8 shared articles)
- 🌐 Freedom of speech (6 shared articles)
- 👤 Chautauqua Institution (5 shared articles)
- 🌐 List of people who survived assassination attempts (4 shared articles)
- 🌐 Knife (2 shared articles)
- 🌐 Stabbing of Salman Rushdie (2 shared articles)
- 🌐 Chautauqua (1 shared articles)
- 🌐 First Amendment to the United States Constitution (1 shared articles)
- 🌐 Human rights (1 shared articles)
- 👤 Guinness World Records (1 shared articles)