Salman Rushdie - "I have crazy dreams"
After a near-fatal stabbing - and decades of threats - the novelist tells the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Razia Iqbal he may never do a public event again.
Sir Salman Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed at an event in New York in August 2022 as he was about to make a speech. He spent six weeks in hospital following the attack and lost vision in one eye. Speaking to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Razia Iqbal on the World Service's Newshour programme - he revealed that he's unsure whether he'll ever feel able to speak at a public event again. Describing how the attack has affected him, he said it was the "emotional stuff" that he was still dealing with - including "crazy dreams". Sir Salman said he was in two minds about whether he wanted to go to court to see his attacker. And he spoke about writing a short book about the stabbing - what he referred to as the "colossal elephant in the room".
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