For the first time since a knife attack in the United States in August which almost cost him his life, the British writer Salman Rushdie reappeared Thursday evening in public in New York during a gala of an organization for the defense of writers. The famous novelist of Indian origin, naturalized American and who lives in New York, received an honorary award from the defense group for freedom of expression and literature, PEN America, of which he was president.
The 75-year-old intellectual, wearing glasses with a black lens on his right eye, was first photographed on the gala red carpet in the setting of the American Museum of Natural History near Central Park, in Manhattan.
His presence had not been announced and he spoke, moved, to the 700 guests of the gala. PEN America, an association that works for freedom of expression, has never been so “important”, said Salman Rushdie, quoted in a statement from PEN America. “Terrorism must not terrorize us. Violence must not deter us. The struggle continues,” he proclaimed in French, Spanish and English.
Assaulted last August
On August 12, he was invited to a literary conference in Chautauqua, a small cultural and bucolic town in upstate New York, near Great Lake Erie. At the time of speaking, a young American of Lebanese origin suspected of being sympathizers with Shiite Iran had thrown himself on him, armed with a knife, and had punched him…
2023-05-19 07:14:00
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