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

In first interview since his stabbing, writer tells how knifeman was ‘last thing my right eye would ever see’

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.