Salman Rushdie Discusses 2022 Attack and Fiction at Babell Literary Festival

Salman Rushdie Discusses His 2022 Knife Attack & Explains Why He Isn’t Interested In “Polemical Fiction” At The Babell Literary Festival

“I’ve had quite a good look at it, and it’s not great,” Salman Rushdie joked this evening when asked about death, and whether he feared it, during a sold-out Q&A session at the inaugural Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal.  Rushdie added: “I’d prefer not to.”  The Indian-born British-American novelist can, of course, […]

By Zac Ntim