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Salman Rushdie is backmost successful the spotlight, 9 months after being critically injured in a stabbing.
The writer made a astonishment quality May 19 astatine the PEN America Literary Award Gala astatine the American Museum of Natural History successful New York City May 19, wherever helium was honored with the Centenary Courage Award. And portion addressing the crowd, Rushdie, 75, who received a lasting ovation arsenic helium appeared onstage, alluded to the horrific incident.
"Well, hullo everybody," the novelist told the crowd. "It's bully to beryllium back—as opposed to not being back, which was besides an option. I'm beauteous gladsome the dice rolled this way."
Last August, Rushdie was preparing to talk astatine an lawsuit astatine the Chautauqua Institution successful Chautauqua, NY, erstwhile a man rushed the signifier and stabbed him aggregate times successful areas specified arsenic his face, neck, abdomen and chest.
The onslaught near Rushdie blind successful 1 oculus and also affected the usage of 1 of his hands. Soon aft the incident, the suspect, Hadi Mater, was charged with attempted execution and assault. He has pleaded not guilty and his lawsuit is pending.
In his code astatine the PEN America Literary Award Gala, Rushdie said helium was accepting the grant connected behalf of the "heroes" who tackled his assailant pursuing the attack. "I was the people that day, but they were the heroes," helium explained. "The courageousness that time was each theirs. I don't cognize their names, I ne'er saw their faces, but that ample radical of people, I beryllium my beingness to them."
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The onslaught took spot much than 30 years aft Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a "fatwa" on Rushdie, calling connected Muslims to termination him implicit his caller The Satanic Verses. The 1988 book was banned successful galore countries with ample Muslim populations over allegedly blasphemous passages.
At the gala, Rushdie said PEN America and its ngo to support escaped look was ne'er "more important" successful a clip of publication bans and censorship. "Terrorism indispensable not terrorize us," he added. "Violence indispensable not deter us. As the aged Marxists utilized to say, 'La lutte continue. La lutta continua.' The conflict goes on."
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