The author Salman Rushdie is to appear at this years Hay Festival, where he will be discussing the role of fiction in today’s world, alongside Erica Wagner, writer and former literary editor at The Times.

In 2022, while appearing in New York, Rushdie was stabbed on stage. He survived but lost an eye. His most recent work, titled Knife, tells the story of the event.

Salman Rushdie is famed for his books Midnight’s Children, Booker Prize winner 1981, The Satanic Verses (1988), Victory City (2023). He has been President of PEN America, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2023.

His event will be on Sunday, June 1 at 5:30pm on the Global Stage.