Salman Rushdie recounts stabbing incident in new memoir "Knife"

Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born author, has faced decades of death threats due to his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" being deemed blasphemous by Iran's supreme leader. Despite this danger, Rushdie had managed to avoid harm until a knife-wielding assailant stabbed him multiple times in the neck and abdomen at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York, in August 2022. Rushdie wrote about his near-death experience in his new memoir "Knife," which was released on Tuesday. He had reportedly experienced a premonition of the event just days before it occurred. After the attack, Rushdie continued to receive death threats.