Salman Rushdie returns to the spotlight

It’s been nearly two years since Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York. The author was severely wounded, losing sight in one eye and the use of one of his hands. But now Rushdie appears to be — tentatively — stepping back into the limelight.

In his first television interview since he was attacked at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York almost two years ago, author Salman Rushdie details his experience to @andersoncooper. Sunday on 60 Minutes. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW pic.twitter.com/OqlnET0KFX

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On Sunday, 60 Minutes will publish Rushdie’s first TV interview since the attack, in which he talks to journalist Anderson Cooper about his experience. “One of the surgeons who had saved my life said ‘first you were really unlucky and then you were really lucky’,” he commented. Pressed on what the “lucky part was”, Rushdie quoted the doctor as saying that “the man who attacked you had no idea how to kill a man with a knife.” Fortunately, the Midnight’s Children author appears to be as defiant as ever.

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