Porto, June 28 (EFE).- British-Indian author Salman Rushdie said in an interview with EFE that «for literature to exist, there must be freedom.»
Attending the Babell literary festival in the Portuguese city of Porto on Sunday, the author stressed that freedom of expression is essential to his work.
Rushdie, who survived a knife attack in New York in 2022 in which he was stabbed 12 times during a public event, said freedom of expression “is something very important because without freedom it is not possible to do the work.”
The author of “The Satanic Verses,” one of the world’s best-known contemporary writers, insisted that he does not see himself as «a great figure.»
«I simply sit in a room writing stories,» he said.
