Salman Rushdie says he feels lucky and grateful in first interview since stabbing

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Speaking out for the first time since being stabbed at a literary event in New York last year, the author Salman Rushdie described himself feeling fortunate and grateful to have survived the attack.

“I’m lucky,” Rushdie said in an interview that the New Yorker published on Monday. “What I really want to say is that my main overwhelming feeling is gratitude.”