"The attack on the Indian-born British American author occurred more than 35 years after he was first subjected to a death warrant, or fatwa, by Iranian religious leaders who were upset at his depiction of Islam in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was on stage lecturing at the Chautauqua Institution amphitheater when Hadi Matar aiming to fulfill the fatwa stabbed him in the head, neck, torso and left hand, resulting in critical injuries to his right eye, liver and intestines."
"Well, I do have a therapist, and I asked him at one point to list for me the symptoms of PTSD, Rushdie replied, in his characteristically soft-spoken tone. And I said, But I don't seem to be having those symptoms, so what's wrong with me?' And he said, Well, it's because you're a badass that's the technical term.'"
Salman Rushdie has reported no symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder following the 2022 stabbing attempt that nearly killed him. He shared that his therapist humorously concluded his lack of PTSD was because he is a "badass." Rushdie published a 2024 memoir about the assault, Knife, and released a fictional collection titled The Eleventh Hour. The attacker, Hadi Matar, sought to fulfill a decades-old fatwa tied to controversy over The Satanic Verses and stabbed Rushdie multiple times at a Chautauqua Institution event, inflicting critical injuries to his right eye, liver and intestines. The right eye injury was permanent.
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