At the Hay Festival in Colombia, Salman Rushdie reflected on his life and the near-fatal knife attack he survived in 2022. Having faced death threats since 1988 due to his book, The Satanic Verses, he shared his gratitude for the audience who saved him from the attacker. Rushdie humorously remarked on his preference to narrate his own story, highlighting that silence is not his style. His new book, Knife, encapsulates his experience, and he expressed a desire to imagine rather than meet his attacker in person, viewing this as a form of creative revenge.
I didn't want anyone else to tell my story, I wanted to tell it my story.
It all unfolded in August. Rushdie was about to begin a talk in a small town in New York State when a man in the audience attacked him.
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