Salman Rushdie made a surprise appearance — his first since a man attacked him last August — on Thursday night at the PEN America gala in Manhattan, where he accepted the organization’s Centenary Courage Award.
last August — on Thursday night at the PEN America gala in Manhattan, where he accepted the organization’s Centenary Courage Award.
“I wanted to say hi, everybody,” he said during his nine-minute speech. “It’s nice to be back. It’s nice to be back as opposed to not being back, which was also an option. And I’m pretty glad the dice rolled this way.” The author, who released a new book,He also addressed the attack, which occurred during a lecture Rushdie was giving at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York.
“So I accept this award … but I accept it primarily on behalf of those who came to my rescue and saved my life,” he continued. “I was the target that day, but they were the heroes. The courage that day was all theirs. … Terrorism must not terrorize us. Violence must not deter us. As the old Marxists used to say,
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