The Indian-born British author suffered life-changing injuries including the loss of his right eye following the attack at the Chautauqua Institution in New…
“It’s rare for anyone to be able to describe a near-death experience,” Salman Rushdie writes in Knife, his account of the “almost murder” of August 12, 2022, when he was stabbed multiple times at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New…
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a…
Later in the day, Rushdie was put on a ventilator and was unable to speak, his agent, Andrew Wylie, told The New York Times. He will likely lose an eye, Wylie said. "The nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and…