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

The knife attack cost the 76-year-old author Salman Rushdie the vision of his right eye and the loss of his hand, and now he's telling the story of suspected serial killer Hadi Matar's attack on CBS's "" 60 Minutes. "" The first thing I thought when I saw this murderous figure racing toward me was, "Oh, that's you. Here's you."

Rushdie's first thought on attempted assassin: 'So it's you'

Salman Rushdie, targeted for assassination since 1989 over his writing, had long wondered who would kill him. When he was stabbed almost fatally, his first thought was, "So it's you."The novelist has recounted his thoughts on his 2022 near death in a book, "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," which is set for publication on Tuesday.In an excerpt from the book which he read for the CBS News show "60 Minutes," Rushdie described "the las…

Salman Rushdie: Author says knife attacker came at him like a 'missile'

The 76-year-old novelist suffered life-changing injuries, including the loss of his sight in one eye and limited feeling in his left hand, in the attack at a literary event in New York state in August 2022.

Sir Salman Rushdie describes moment he was stabbed on stage in 2022

He described the man appearing as ‘the last thing my right eye would ever see’

Salman Rushdie describes moment he was stabbed onstage

Author tells how knifeman was ‘last thing my right eye would ever see’

Salman Rushdie recalls gruesome stabbing in new memoir, ‘The last thing..’

The attack occurred 33 years after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death due to the publication of his book, The Satanic Verses