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The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Salman Rushdie says even he is surprised he doesn’t have PTSD symptoms after 2022 attack

Salman Rushdie at the 2025 New Yorker Festival at Webster Hall in October 2025.
Salman Rushdie at the 2025 New Yorker Festival at Webster Hall in October 2025. Photograph: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The New Yorker

Salman Rushdie says he has been free of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder despite almost dying from being stabbed during an attempted assassination in 2022, prompting his therapist to humorously conclude that it was because the famed novelist is a “badass”.

Rushdie shared the lighthearted anecdote during an interview aired on Sunday morning by CBS News in which he discussed his new fiction story collection titled The Eleventh Hour – while also revisiting the attack at a literary gathering in western New York state that left him blind in his right eye.

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