Author Salman Rushdie's upcoming memoir, 'Knife,' will focus on the near-fatal 2022 stabbing attack in upstate New York.
David Chiu is a digital news writer for PEOPLE. A former PEOPLE intern from 2007 to 2008, he has been writing about news and entertainment for over 10 years.“This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art,” Rushdie said in a statement via Penguin Random House.On Aug. 12, 2022, Rushdie was on stage at a literary festival at New York State's Chautauqua Institution when a male assailant approached and attacked him with a knife.
In the same interview, Rushdie expressed thanks, including to his wife and children as well as his doctors following the attack. “I’m lucky,” he said. “What I really want to say is that my main overwhelming feeling is gratitude.
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