Jurors have watched videos showing Salman Rushdie being repeatedly stabbed on a stage in western New York while audience members gasped in horror at the attack that left the prized-winning novelist seriously wounded and blinded in one eye.

Salman Rushdie spoke calmly and with occasional dry humor as he testified on Tuesday against the man accused of trying to murder him, the first time the two have been in the same place since the 2022 knife attack on the novelist onstage at a New York arts institute.

The author says he felt like he was lying in "a lake of blood" after he was attacked on stage in New York state.

The author recounted in vivid testimony the moment when an attacker stabbed him about 15 times as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn’t even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during opening statements in the suspect’s attempted murder trial.

Jurors who will determine the fate of a man who is accused of attempting to kill a world-renown author by stabbing him multiple times two and a half years ago were shown videos of the event. On Friday,

The man said once he realized it wasn't a prank he tried to stop the attack, and ended up with a gash over his eye.