Author Salman Rushdie shares health update in first interview since he was repeatedly stabbed

SIR Salman Rushdie has expressed his gratitude to the medics in his first interview since he was repeatedly stabbed.

The Indian-born British author, 75, suffered serious injuries and lost sight in one eye.

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He was about to speak at an event in New York when the gunman struck last year.

Sir Salman said: “I’m lucky. What I really want to say is that my main overwhelming feeling is gratitude.

“At some point I would like to go back up and say thank you.”

He also thanked his sons and wife, who “carried the emotional burden that I almost got killed.”

In an interview with The New Yorker magazine, he said he was “not too bad” and that “all major injuries have essentially healed.”

But he struggles with typing due to hand injuries.

And the author of The Satanic Verses — his 1988 novel that led to death threats from Muslims who consider it blasphemous — said: “There is such a thing as PTSD.

“I found it very, very difficult to write.

“I sit down and nothing happens.”

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