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Author Salman Rushdie says knife was ‘a millimetre from my brain’

The prize-winning 79-year-old writer recalled lying in "an enormous and expansive lake of blood" after he was stabbed by at Hadi Matar in 2022.

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Author Salman Rushdie says knife was 'a millimetre from my brain'

The prize-winning 79-year-old writer recalled lying in "an enormous and expansive lake of blood" after he was stabbed by at Hadi Matar in 2022.

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