Facts: Salman Rushdie
Born in 1947 in Bombay, India, in a Muslim family.
Raised in the UK, educated in Cambridge.
Worked in advertising before he had his literary breakthrough with “Midnattsbarnen” in 1980. The book won several awards, including the Booker Prize.
Has written twelve novels, the latest, “Quixotte”, came out in 2019, as well as a collection of short stories, two children’s books and non-fiction.
He is an American citizen since 2016 and lives in New York.
He was knighted in 2007.
Rushdie lost the sight in one eye and the mobility in one hand after the knife attack in August.
The book “Segerstaden”, Rushdie’s fifteenth novel, will be published early next year and will be available in Swedish translation in April 2023.
The excerpt was published on the magazine’s website and will also appear in the printed edition, which will hit newsstands next week.
Rushdie has lived under death threats for more than 30 years since Iran’s then-spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa against him in 1989 following the publication of the novel “The Satanic Verses.” For nine years Rushdie was forced to live under constant protection.
On August 12 this year, Rushdie was stabbed in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye at a literary event in Chautauqua, New York, before people in the audience intervened.
In an interview from prison, the suspected perpetrator has said that he disliked Rushdie and “was surprised that the writer survived”.