British writer Salman Rushdie, who was attacked in New York last year, said he was writing a book about the incident. It has been reported Finance Times.
“I don’t read as fast as I used to, but … I’m writing a book about what happened that I think will be pretty short,” Rushdie said.
It was learned that the survivor of the attack in 2022 was the first Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie. appeared nine months after the event. He attended the PEN America Gala in New York, where he received the organization’s Centennial Courage Award.
On the evening of August 12, 2022, an unidentified man attacked Booker Prize winner Rushdie before he gave a lecture at an education center in western New York State. Rushdie needed to be hospitalized.
Salman Rushdie is under the threat of death because of the fatwa issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini for his book Satanic Verses, which many Muslims see as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad.
Founded in 1922, PEN America is a New York City-based non-profit organization that works to protect freedom of expression and human rights in the United States and around the world by promoting relevant literature.