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Salman Rushdie described his life as “relatively normal” in an interview just two weeks before an assailant stabbed him at an upstate writer’s event.
He made the pronouncement to Germany’s “Stern” magazine, which released a transcript of the interview Saturday.
The interview was conducted in Manhattan, at the office of Rushdie’s agent, and he arrived without bodyguards, the magazine noted.
Rushdie discussed the religious edict issued against him in Iran in 1989.
“A fatwa like that is a serious matter, fortunately the Internet didn’t exist back then. The Iranians had to fax the fatwa to the mosques.
