Sir Salman Rushdie said he had moved on from the knife attack, and his attacker was sentenced to jail for attempted murder.

Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced to 25 years after repeatedly stabbing Sir Salman during his speech in New York in 2022.

Sir Salman has a new book later this year, and he told Hay Festival that when he and his wife Eliza "return to the crime scene and show him that I can stand up I can stand up".

“It would be nice to talk about the novel again because since the attack, the only thing anyone wants to talk about is the attack, but I’m over.”

Sir Salman recently told Radio 4's Today show that he was "happy" to the man who tried to kill him was sentenced to the highest prison sentence.

After the incident, the midnight child and Satanic Scripture writer were caused life-changing injuries - he is now blind with one eye, damaged to the liver, and has a paralyzed hand due to nerve damage to the arms.

Last year, Salman Sir published a book titled Knife Reflect, which he described as “my way of fighting back.”

The attack took place 35 years after Sir Salman's controversial novel Satanic, which long made him the target of the death threat depicted by the Prophet Muhammad.

In November, the author will publish a collection of short stories, the eleventh hour, which is the first novels he has written since the sting.

Sir Salman's activities were very strict with the cigar dog present and bag inspection, resulting in a 15-minute delay.

As he entered the stage, he waved the audience and humbly called them to stop applause: "I can't see everyone-but I can hear them."

He said he felt "good" despite "I was a little angry, like I didn't have a right eye.

During the extensive discussion, Sir Salman also talked about American politics, claiming that “the United States is not very good”.

Sir Salman clearly refers to President Donald Trump, who spoke of “the moment of hope, the image of Barack and Michelle Obama follows the shopping center in Washington, D.C., with crowds dancing in the streets of New York.

But he said he is still very positive about the future.

“I think I have an optimistic disease…I can’t help but somehow it will be OK.”

Speaking about freedom of speech, he said: “It means tolerating people who say things you don’t like.”

He recalls an era in which the film The Realain was produced during the turmoil of Satanic Scriptures and was not classified by the British Film Classification Commission (BBFC) as “because it was defamatory in a hundred ways”, but he asked them to allow it to be released.

"So they gave it a certificate... no one went, you know why? Bad movies. This taught me a lesson. Let go and trust the audience. It's still my point of view.

“I think we do live the moment when people are too eager to forbid speeches they disapprove. It’s a very slippery slope” and warns young people to “think about it.”

Asked about the impact of AI on the author, Sir Salman said: “I don’t have a chat GPT…I tried very hard to pretend it didn’t exist.

Despite being considered one of the greatest living writers, Sir Salman joked that the author “don’t even have that much money…except for the two of us (he and host Erica Wagner) and those who wrote about children’s wizards…the Taylor Swift of literature, referring to JK Rowling.

"Good to her."