Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Richard Flanagan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rachel Cockerell and Jonathan Blitzer also in running for 50,000 nonfiction award

Salman Rushdie's memoir about surviving being stabbed is among the books longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction.

Rushdie's book, titled Knife, recounts the August 2022 attack, which happened on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state, as well as the author's recovery.