NEW YORK — Author Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he ...

By Jennifer Schuessler Salman Rushdie walked onstage at PEN America’s annual gala on Thursday night, his first public appearance since he was stabbed and gravely wounded in an attack last August ...

Two days after a would-be assassin stabbed the author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution ... that a man with a knife cannot silence a man with a pen." While the summer lectures will ...

In a statement after his 2022 attack, literary group PEN America said, "Salman Rushdie has been targeted for his words for decades but has never flinched nor faltered. He has devoted tireless ...

Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, “Knife,” is a harrowing account of the attack that maimed him in 2022, and is a reminder of how gravely injured he was. It’s also a deeply moving love story ...

for a book. For a book..." WRITER AND DIRECTOR RAJA SEN: "Come on, Salman Rushdie. We need you now more than ever." PEN INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT BURHAN SONMEZ: "PEN International utterly condemns ...

Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn’t even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during opening ...

Feb. 21, 2025 A jury in western New York on Friday found a New Jersey man guilty of attempted murder in the stabbing of the author Salman ... Mr. Rushdie rises to accept an award at the PEN ...

Author Salman Rushdie responds to questions during a news interview for the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala Thursday, May 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) NEW YORK (AP) — Salman ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he ...

NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie ... annual gala of PEN America, the literary and free expression organization for which he once served as president. “I feel great,” said Rushdie, wearing a dark ...