EntertainmentWriter stabbed in lecture says he dreamed of attack: ‘Premonition’Salman Rushdie spoke about what happened for the first time in an interview on a television program today at 4:24 pm

EntertainmentWriter stabbed in lecture says he dreamed of attack: ‘Premonition’Salman Rushdie spoke about what happened for the first time in an interview on a television program today at 4:24 pm

Salman Rushdie spoke about what happened for the first time in an interview on a television program

Salman Rushdie, a writer stabbed in 2022 during a lecture, spoke for the first time about what happened in an interview with a television program. He was hit 10 times by Hadi Matara 24-year-old young man who took the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, in the state of New York.

Rushdie confessed during 60 Minutes, from CBS, who two days before the talk had a kind of “premonition”. He dreamed that he was being stabbed in an amphitheater and, therefore, he told his wife, Elizawho did not want to participate in the event (via Folha de S.Paulo).

“I confess that sometimes I imagined my killer appearing in some public forum and coming after me in exactly that way. So my first thought when I saw this murderous form running towards me was, ‘So it’s you,'” said the author of The Satanic Verses (1988) (via Folha de S.Paulo). The book tells a fictional narrative about the prophet Mohammed.

As a result of the attack engineered by To killan American of Lebanese origin and allegedly a sympathizer of Iranian Shiites, Rushdie lost vision in one eye.

“One of the surgeons who saved my life said to me, ‘You were very unlucky and then you were very 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,'” he recalled (via Folha de S.Paulo).

Now, Salman plans to release a book to tell the story of his assassination attempt: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.

Source: Rollingstone

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