Salman Rushdie
speaker
469 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Jun
Salman Rushdie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I thought, okay, that happened, but now I'm here, not there.
Oh, I mean, absolutely central.
You know, I mean, what I came to think when I was writing the memoir was
was that it was a book about three people.
It was a book about me, the attacker, and Eliza.
And me, if you like, at the apex of the triangle, and at the other points of the triangle, were kind of love and hatred.
You know, life and death.
And I'm happy, since I'm still here, you could say that the good side won.
But I think without Eliza, it would have been, I don't know, I don't know that I would be talking to you in this way today.
It didn't really.
It made, if anything, it made us care for each other more.
There was obviously a lot of trauma.
There was a need for both of us needed extensive therapy.
But we're both survivors, you know, and we were both determined that we were to get through this and get our lives back as close as possible to normal.
And we fought for it.
You know, we fought for it together.
And here we are.
How close back to normal did you get?
Well, close.
Compared to before?
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