Salman Rushdie to write a book about being stabbed on stage

Salman Rushdie at the PEN America Literary Gala in May. Photograph: Frank Franklin II/AP

Salman Rushdie is writing a book about being stabbed on stage in New York last year, an attack which left him without sight in one eye, the author told the Hay literary festival.

“I’m trying to write a book about the attack on me – what happened and what it means, not just about the attack, but around it,” he said in a pre-recorded zoom appearance.