Salman Rushdie: ‘My story is about beauty facing death’
The author presents his book ‘Knife’ at the Hay Festival in Cartagena. He reflects on the attack he survived in August 2022 and his refusal to interpret it through pain or anger, arguing ‘that would be the end of my life as a writer’
Wearing a black patch over his right eye, Salman Rushdie walked onto the stage at the Cartagena Convention Center in Colombia for the 20th edition of the Hay Festival. The famed author and essayist was a guest of honor of the festival in 2009 and 2018, but had never come to the event to talk about how close he came to death.
