Salman Rushdie to publish first work of fiction since 2022 stabbing

Salman Rushdie appearing by videolink at Lviv BookForum. Photograph: Nastya Telikova

Salman Rushdie, who survived a stabbing attack in 2022 that cost him an eye, is writing a new work of fiction, he has told the audience at Lviv BookForum.

The author’s new work will comprise three novellas, each of about 70 pages, and each relating to one of “the three worlds in my life: India and England and America. And they all in some way consider the idea of an ending.”