Unveiling Salman Rushdie's Untold Battle: Memoir Chronicles the Life-Altering Stabbing
Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed Indian-born novelist, will release Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder in April This compelling memoir reflects on his harrowing experience of being targeted by Iran for his controversial writing, which left him blind in one eye
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who went into hiding for several years due to Iran's call for his assassination over his writings, is set to release a memoir that delves into his stabbing incident in New York in 2022. Penguin Random House, the book publisher, announced on Wednesday that Rushdie's memoir, titled "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," will be available on April 16, 2024.
"This book was crucial for me to author—a means to assume agency over the events and counter violence with art," conveyed Rushdie in a statement issued by the publisher, as his public appearances have been constrained following last year's attack.
The cover of Salman Rushdie's forthcoming memoir, "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder."
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Rushdie, aged 76, received the "Freedom to Publish" accolade from the British Book Awards in May. However, an incident occurred on stage during a lecture in New York state in August 2022, resulting in the renowned British author losing vision in one eye and impaired use of one hand. The assailant, a Shiite Muslim American from New Jersey, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree attempted murder and assault.
Rushdie released a new novel, "Victory City," nearly six months after his stabbing attack.
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Rushdie has been subjected to persistent death threats due to his fourth novel, "The Satanic Verses," which was prohibited in numerous countries with significant Muslim populations upon its release in 1988 as it contained passages deemed blasphemous by certain individuals.
Following the issuance of a fatwa, a religious decree, by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the then supreme leader of Iran, calling for Muslims to assassinate Rushdie, he lived in seclusion for several years.
While President Mohammad Khatami's pro-reform government in Iran distanced itself from the fatwa in the late 1990s, the substantial bounty on Rushdie's head continued to increase, and the fatwa remained in effect. The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, later declared that the fatwa against Rushdie was "irrevocable."
