Novelist Salman Rushdie set to publish memoir 'Knife' about being stabbed in 2022
WASHINGTON, — Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, will publish a memoir on his 2022 stabbing in New York, book publisher Penguin Random House said on Wednesday.
Rushdie's new memoir, 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder', will be published on April 16, 2024.
«This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art,» Rushdie, whose public appearances have been limited since last year's attack, said in a statement released by the publisher.
Rushdie, 76, was awarded the 'Freedom to Publish' award by the British Book Awards in May.
An attack onstage in Aug. 2022, during a lecture in New York state left the British author blind in one eye and affected the use of one of his hands.
