When Salman Rushdie attended a literary event in upstate New York on the morning of 12 August 2022, it had been 33 years since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa for his novel "The Satanic Verses". He writes in his new book that his first thought when he saw a masked man in black clothes running fast towards him was: "So it’s you.

M oments after a knife-wielding audience member charged the stage where acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie was giving a talk on safety for writers in August 2022, Rushdie found himself lying in a pool of his own blood. He had been stabbed at least 12 times.

Salman Rushdie, one of the world’s best-known writers, was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife. Rushdie has written of that harrowing day and all that’s followed in a new book. He discussed it with Jeffrey Brown for our arts and culture series,

Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dying in the company of strangers — that was what was going through my mind." His new book is Knife.

Salman Rushdie is a storyteller. So when you ask him to describe the day, in 2022, when he was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife, Rushdie paints a vivid picture.

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Salman Rushdie about the attempted assassination he survived, and his new memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder”.

Salman Rushdie has admitted his feet "started dancing" when he was standing outside the jail cell which housed the man accused of attacking him with a knife in 2022.