Salman Rushdie was assassinated last year. The author talks about his experiences in his upcoming work.
The Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie is especially known for his novel “The Satanic Verses”. The work is still banned in many countries. SARAH YENESEL
Not an eye for an eye, but a book for an eye.
The writer Salman Rushdie, who has been on the run from Iran’s death sentence for decades, will publish a biography next year in which he discusses the stabbing that happened last year. This is reported by the Reuters news agency.
Rushdie was speaking at a writer’s event in upstate New York when the New Jersey native Hadi Matar attacked him in August last year.
As a result of the stabbing, Rushdie was put on a ventilator, lost the sight in one eye and suffered nerve damage in his arm.
Rushdie’s work Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder will appear on April 16, 2024.
– Writing this work was necessary for me, a way to take control of the situation and respond to violence with art, 76-year-old Rushdie says in a press release from the publishing house, according to Reuters.
Rushdie’s life has been threatened for decades Satanic verses because of his work. The work was published in 1988.
The writer had to go into hiding when Iran’s religious leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious statement, with which he demanded Muslims to kill the author and the publishers of the work.
A reward of 2.8 million dollars was promised for taking Rushdie’s life.
The fatwa has not been officially nullified, even though the power has changed.
According to Reuters, Khomeini’s successor, Ali Khamenei, has said that the fatwa against Rushdie is “irrevocable”.