Salman Rushdie Australia tour: Author returns to Melbourne and Sydney for first time since 2022 attack

Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie will return to Australia for the first time since he survived an attempt on his life in 2022.

Rushdie, best known for award-winning novels including Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses , will appear in both Melbourne and Sydney next year, beginning at Melbourne Town Hall with The Wheeler Centre on August 17. He will then deliver the Opening Night John Caldon Provocation, The Price of Ideas, as part of Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 21.

The author has faced several death threats since 1988 after releasing The Satanic Verses , which was considered blasphemous by Iran’s then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. But three years ago, the Booker Prize-winner was attacked by a 24-year-old man with a knife as he prepared t