Sir Salman Rushdie has described the moment he saw his would-be killer “coming in hard and low – a squat missile” before he was stabbed more than a dozen times in a lecture hall in 2022.
In his first television interview about the attack, the novelist said he had sometimes envisioned a killer striking in a public place, and his immediate thought was: “So, it’s you. Here you are.”
The Booker Prize winner was told by doctors he was lucky to escape with his life, saying the man who stabbed him “had no idea how to kill a man with a knife”.
