LONDON (AP) Writer Salman Rushdie has made a public speech, nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, warning that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe thr.
The writer, who in 2022 was blinded in one eye after being attacked at a New York state literary festival, also criticized publishers rewriting old books for modern sensibilities.
Writer, who was blinded in one eye and suffered hand nerve damage, cites 'extraordinary attack on libraries, and books for children in schools' in US, as well as book rewrites