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Salman Rushdie danced outside the jail cell that housed the man accused of attacking him. The 76-year-old author was left critically injured after he was stabbed onstage just moments before he was due to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state in August 2022 and he went back to the venue after he recovered to revisit the site of the near-fatal assault before stopping in at the local prison. During an appearance on 'The Daily Show', Salman said: "It was a last-minute decision [to visit the jail]. We were actually on the plane flying up, because I had this desire to go ...
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Salman Rushdie leaned on a therapist to help him write about his near-fatal stabbing. The 76-year-old author was left critically injured after he was attacked onstage just moments before he was due to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state in August 2022 and he's written about his experiences in new new book 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder' - and now he's revealed it was the first book he's ever needed help writing. Speaking at a question-and-answer session at an English PEN event at the Southbank Centre in London, Rushdie explained: "[It is the] only b...
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Salman Rushdie wanted to be an actor. The 76-year-old novelist has made his name as one of the world's most controversial authors but revealed that his only other ambition was to tread the boards professionally after taking part in a number of productions as a student. He told The Sunday Telegraph: "My only other fantasy was to be an actor. At Cambridge, I took part in a lot of student theatre and only contributed a little to university magazines. I played quite a wide range of parts, in Brecht’s 'Scenes from the Third Reich', Ionesco’s 'Rhinoceros', and Ben Jonson’s 'The Alchemist'." The 'Sat...
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Salman Rushdie suffered a cancer scare shortly after he survived a brutal stabbing. The 76-year-old author was left critically injured after he was attacked onstage at a lecture in New York state in August 2022 and underwent eight hours of life-saving surgery before spending a further 18 days in hospital - and now he's revealed he was dealt a further blow during his recovery when he went for a regular prostate exam and doctors told him they had found a lump. In his new book 'Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder', Rushdie wrote: "I was at a loss for words. Really? After I narrowly survi...
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Salman Rushdie predicted he would be stabbed to death in a chilling dream just two days before he was attacked with a knife at a literary event. The 76-year-old author was left critically injured after he was attacked onstage just moments before he was due to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state in August 2022 - and he's now revealed he didn't want to attend because he had a terrifying vision of his own death just two days beforehand. In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS programme '60 Minutes', Salman explained: "[The dream] was just somebody with a spear st...
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Padma Lakshmi is leaving ‘Top Chef’ after 19 seasons and 17 years on the cookery contest show. The 52-year-old TV personality, who has starred on the series since its 2006 second season, said her decision was “difficult” but she feels it is time to leave. She said in a statement on Friday (02.06.23) posted on her Instagram Stories: “After much soul searching, I have made the difficult decision to leave ‘Top Chef’. “Having completed a glorious 20th season as host and executive producer, I am extremely proud to have been part of building such a successful show and of the impact it has had in the...
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is calling for censors not to "gobblefunk" Roald Dahl's work. He made the plea amid ongoing outcry over publisher Puffin’s decision to edit some of the late author's beloved works – which include 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Matilda' and 'James and the Giant Peach' – to remove terms such as "fat" in a bid to allow "all children today" to enjoy the books. In a nod to a phrase in Roald's 1982 bestseller 'The BFG', Mr Sunak, 42, has warned censors should not "gobblefunk" with words, as Britain has always treasured “freedom of expression”. A spokesperson for the...
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Salman Rushdie has branded his attacker an “idiot”. ‘The Satanic Verses’ writer, 75, was onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York on 12 August 2022 when 24 year old Hadi Matar charged at him with a knife and stabbed him 15 times in the torso and neck, and the author said he now suffers PTSD and nightmares after the “colossal” assault. Salman, who is still in recovery at home after six weeks in hospital following the attack, told The New Yorker about how Matar had given a newspaper interview from prison: “I don’t know what I think of him, because I don’t know him. All I’ve seen...
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Salman Rushdie is blind in his right eye and has lost mobility in a hand after he was stabbed 15 times in New York. The writer’s agent revealed his condition after 75-year-old Salman – renowned for his ‘The Satanic Verses’ novel, which triggered a decades-long fatwa calling for his death – was repeatedly knifed as he prepared to give a talk on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institute on August 12. Andrew Wylie said in an interview with Spanish newspaper El País: “His wounds were deep. He lost sight in one eye. He suffered three serious neck injuries and lost mobility in one hand because th...
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JK Rowling’s Salman Rushdie-linked death threat investigation has been dropped by police. The ‘Harry Potter’ writer, 57, was warned “you are next” by an online troll after she voiced her support for ‘The Satanic Verses’ author after he was stabbed in August on stage as he prepared to give a talk in New York City. A Police Scotland spokeswoman has now told The Sun the investigation had been dropped into the threat as the culprit lived outside Britain. They said: “Following a report made to police on Saturday, 13 August, 2022 regarding an online threat, enquiries have been carried out into this ...
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