Salman Rushdie misplaced sight in a single eye and the usage of one hand, his agent stated in October.

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British writer Salman Rushdie has stated he finds it “very tough” to write down after being stabbed in New York final 12 months, in his first interview for the reason that assault.

Mr Rushdie instructed the New Yorker, in an article revealed Monday, that the stabbing on stage at an occasion had left him with psychological scars.

“There may be such a factor as PTSD you realize,” the 75-year-old stated.

“I’ve discovered it very, very tough to write down. I sit down to write down, and nothing occurs. I write, however it’s a mix of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the following day. I am not out of that forest but, actually,” Mr Rushdie added.

The award-winning novelist was attacked as he was about to talk at a convention in Chautauqua in upstate New York, close to Lake Erie, on August 12.

Mr Rushdie, a naturalized American who has lived in New York for 20 years, misplaced sight in a single eye and the usage of one hand, his agent stated in October.

The writer instructed journalist David Remnick that he was not in a position to sort very properly due to an absence of feeling in some fingertips.

“As you may see, the massive accidents are healed, basically. I’ve feeling in my thumb and index finger and within the backside half of the palm. I am doing numerous hand remedy, and I am instructed that I am doing very properly,” Mr Rushdie stated.

“I have been higher. However, contemplating what occurred, I am not so unhealthy,” he added.

Mr Rushdie lived in hiding for years after Iran’s first supreme chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the blasphemous nature of “The Satanic Verses,” revealed in 1988.

The writer was requested whether or not he thought it had been a mistake to let his guard down in current many years.

“I am asking myself that query, and I do not know the reply to it,” Mr Rushdie stated.

“Three-quarters of my life as a author has occurred for the reason that fatwa. In a approach, you may’t remorse your life,” he added.

Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old from New Jersey with roots in Lebanon, was arrested instantly after the assault and subsequently pleaded not responsible to the fees.

“I blame him,” stated Mr Rushdie, when requested who he thought was accountable.

The article was revealed forward of the US launch Tuesday of Mr Rushdie’s latest novel, “Victory Metropolis.”

It’s a few 14th-century lady who defies a patriarchal world to rule a metropolis and was written earlier than the assault.

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