Sir Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American author, spoke to Newshour's Razia Iqbal in an exclusive interview nearly a year after he was stabbed in New York. In this conversation, Sir Rushdie opens up about life after the attack and talks about the power of books.

The Booker Prize winning author suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing his fourth novel The Satanic Verses.

This interview first aired on BBC’s Newshour programme on the World Service.

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