The conversation will be held in the Auditorium of the Congress Centre, director Annalena Benini announced Tuesday.
Mumbai-born Rushdie, 76, best known for Midnight’s Children (1981) and The Satanic Verses, which earned him an Iranian death fatwah in 1988, will present his new book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
In the book Rushdie relives, for the first time, the traumatic attack of August 12, 2022, in New York, when a deranged man rushed onto the stage and stabbed him repeatedly.
Rushdie was stabbed in the face, neck and abdomen, leaving him with the loss of sight in one eye.
The book recounts the complicated path to physical recovery and healing thanks to the love and support of his wife Eliza, family, doctors, physiotherapists and the community of his readers.
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