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Salman Rushdie Discusses His Knife Attack
At the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal, Salman Rushdie discussed his 2022 knife attack and expressed no interest in writing polemical fiction. The event drew a sold-out audience.
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“I’ve had quite a good look at it, and it’s not great,” Salman Rushdie joked this evening when asked about death, and whether he feared it, during a sold-out Q&A session at the inaugural Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. Rushdie added: “I’d prefer not to.”
2026-06-28 23:37 UTC