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Rushdie debated interviewing his attacker
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April 25, 2024
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0:57Now PlayingSalman Rushdie wondered if he should interview his attacker.
The prolific author, who was the victim of a stabbing that nearly killed him in 2022, told NPR, “There was a bit of me that wanted to go and ask this man in jail: why’d you do it?”
Rushdie ultimately decided against it. “I’m gonna get either banality, or some kind of clichéd hostility,” he said. “And I thought, then what might be better for me to do, for me, is to use my own gift which is imagination, to try and imagine myself into his head and try and see what he might’ve been up to.”
In his new memoir, “Knife,” Rushdie writes about the attack.
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