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'I remember thinking I was dying': Rushdie relives brutal 2022 knife attack
The Daily Guardian
|April 16, 2024
Mumbai-born Booker Prizewinning author Salman Rushdie has spoken in gruesome detail about the moment he was attacked by a knifeman on stage in New York in 2022, and said he thought he was dying as his left eye hung down his face “like a soft-boiled egg”.
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The 76-year-old BritishAmerican author was on stage in August 2022 when he was stabbed up to 12 times by accused Hadi Matar in prison for attempted murder.
In an interview with the BBC ahead of the release of his detailed account of the attack in ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’ this week, the author admitted that losing an eye is something that “upsets me every day” and that the memoir was his way of fighting back against what happened.
“I actually thought he punched me very hard. I didn’t realise it was a knife in his hand, and then I saw the blood, and I realised there was a weapon,” said Rush die, recalling the moment of the attack at the Chautauqua Institution.
This story is from the April 16, 2024 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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