Salman Rushdie, the prolific author whose acclaimed magical realist novel 'The Satanic Verses' prompted calls for his assassination after it was published in the 1980s, has given his first interview after a brutal stabbing last summer.
had said that Rushdie suffered serious injuries to his face and neck, as well as his liver and critical nerves in one arm.
Rushdie said in his New Yorker interview that, six months after the attack, his"main overwhelming feeling is gratitude," while noting that the road to recovery both physically and psychologically is ongoing. "I have feeling in my thumb and index finger and in the bottom half of the palm. I'm doing a lot of hand therapy, and I'm told that I'm doing very well," he told the magazine. Rushdie also said that, despite never allowing himself"to use the phrase 'writer's block,'" he has struggled to write since the stabbing.
"There is such a thing as P.T.S.D., you know," he said."I've found it very, very difficult to write. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. I write, but it's a combination of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the next day. I'm not out of that forest yet, really." The physical acts of typing, and writing, to a lesser extent, are also challenging in and of themselves, Rushdie added,"because of the lack of feeling in the fingertips of these fingers." In a photograph published of him alongside the New Yorker article, as well as a personal selfie that Rushdie posted on
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