Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
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On August 12, 2022, Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by 24-year-old Hadi Matar as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in
Amphitheater stage where the attack occurred, as seen on July 20, 2022
Rushdie two years after the stabbing, wearing a darkened lens to cover his injured eye
Salman Rushdie 2018
Henry Reese portrait
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in April 2024 by Jonathan Cape. The book recounts the stabbing att
Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
…media celebrated it. U.S. law enforcement investigated whether the assailant was in contact with other extremists. Rushdie's memoir about the attack, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, was released on April 16, 2024. In February 2025, Matar was convicted of attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault and was sentenced…
Knife, Meditations After an Attempted Murder