'So it’s you. Here you are': Salman Rushdie describes moment he was stabbed

Rushdie was about to give a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state on 12 August 2022 when a man rushed on stage and stabbed him about 10 times

After the attack, Salman Rushdie remained in hospital for six weeks. He lost vision in one eye and feeling in some fingertips. 

Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.” 

“It felt like something coming out of the distant past and trying to drag me back in time, if you like, back into that distant past, in order to kill me,” said the Indian-born British-American author of books including The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children.