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Salman Rushdie warns young people against forgetting value of free speech
Author also discusses prospect of second Trump presidency and writing about his stabbing in launch event for his book Knife
Salman Rushdie has warned young people against forgetting the value of free speech and discussed the “very big and negative” impact of a second Trump presidency in a rare public appearance since his stabbing.
The Indian-born British-American author of books including the Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children also discussed the attack in 2022 that left him blind in one eye during a Q&A at an English PEN event at the Southbank Centre.
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