Salman Rushdie Recalls ‘Premonition’ Dream Before Brutal Knife Attack

Two nights before he was attacked onstage at a literary festival in western New York, Salman Rushdie had a dream he was being stabbed.

“I kind of had a premonition,” he told Anderson Cooper. “I mean, I had a dream of being attacked in an amphitheater. But it was a kind of Roman Empire dream, you know?”

Rushdie’s appearance in a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday night marked his first televised interview since the Aug. 12, 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution. Hit by his assailant’s knife 10 times, Rushdie was stabbed in the face, hand, chest, stomach, thigh, and neck. He would remain hospitalized for six weeks, and ultimately lose all vision in his right eye and feeling in some fingertips.

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