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Sir Salman Rushdie recalls New York knifeattack two years on | BBC News
Sir Salman Rushdie has spoken in chilling detail to theBBC about what he remembers of an attack two yearsago, in which he was stabbed on stage.
The Booker Prize-winning author said his eye was lefthanging down his face "like a soft-boiled egg", and thatlosing the eye "upsets him every day".
"I remember thinking I was dying," he said.
"Fortunately, I was wrong."
The attack took place at an education institute in NewYork state in August 2022, as he was preparing to give a lecture.
He recalled how the assailant came "sprinting up thestairs" and stabbed him 12 times, including in his neckand abdomen, in an attack lasting 27 seconds.
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