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"Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship," Rushdie said.

The novelist is still recovering from a knife attack last summer, but the loss of an eye won’t stop him writing about it

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"Victory City" by Salman Rushdie; Random House (352 pages, $30)

On August 12, 2022, British author Salman Rushdie was ready to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York when a man suddenly attacked him with a knife on the stage. The award-winning novelist was severely injured with wounds to his neck and torso and subsequently lost vision…

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Author Salman Rushdie is making progress after an attack last August left him badly injured, but he’s still struggling to write, he said in his first interview since the incident.

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