In first interview since his stabbing, writer tells how knifeman was ‘last thing my right eye would ever see’
Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.”
Rushdie was about to give a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state on 12 August 2022 when a man rushed on stage and“I was seated at stage right,” said Rushdie, reading from his forthcoming memoir about the attack, titled Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. “Then, in the corner of my right eye – the last thing my right eye would ever see – I saw the man in black running toward me down the right-hand side of the seating area. Black clothes, black face mask.
After the attack, Rushdie remained in hospital for six weeks. He lost vision in one eye and feeling in some fingertips. “One of the surgeons who had saved my life said to me, ‘First you were really unlucky and then you were really lucky’. I said, ‘What’s the lucky part?’ and he said ‘Well, the lucky part is that the man who attacked you had no idea how to kill a man with a knife’,” RushdieAnderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes in his first television interview since the attack .
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