Salman Rushdie survived the knife attack, which lasted nearly 30 seconds and damaged his liver and severed the nerves in an arm and an eye.
Award-winning novelist Sir Salman Rushdie opened up for the first time about the attack that nearly ended his life in 2022, calling his survival a 'miracle.' 'How does somebody who doesn’t believe in the supernatural account for the fact that something has happened, which feels like a miracle?' Rushdie told '60 Minutes' host Anderson Cooper during a segment that aired Sunday.
The fatwa drove Rushdie to flee to the United Kingdom, where he lived for years before diplomatic negotiations led the Iranian state to declare the affair 'completely finished' and insist that the country would not encourage anyone else to threaten Rushdie’s life. However, Iranian clerics and religious groups continued to urge followers to kill Rushdie, periodically raising the bounty on his head, which amounts to just shy of $4 million, according to Reuters.
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