Salman Rushdie has announced his next book, the Guardian reports.
The author is working on a collection of three novellas, he told the audience at the Lviv BookForum in Ukraine via a video appearance. The novellas will draw from his experiences living in India, the U.K., and the U.S., and “all in some way consider the idea of an ending.”
Rushdie, known for novels including Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses, is most recently the author of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. The memoir, which tells the story of the stabbing attack that nearly killed him, is a finalist for the National Book Award, and is being developed as a documentary film.
Rushdie discussed Knife at the festival, telling the audience, “I thought, Well, I’m a storyteller. I want to take back control of the story so that I tell it in my way, and [my attacker] becomes a part of my story, rather than me becoming a part of his story.’”
He also discussed his writing plans in general and his own mortality as a 77-year-old author.
“When you get to this age you obviously think about how long is left,” he said. “There obviously aren’t 22 more [books] that are going to be written. If I’m lucky, there will be one or two.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
