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It has been reported that author Salman Rushdie, who was attacked with a knife in New York in August, misplaced his sight in a single eye and couldn’t use one in all his fingers.
The writer’s supervisor, Andrew Wylie, informed the Spanish newspaper El Pais that Rushdie had been stabbed within the chest greater than 15 occasions and mentioned, “It was a lethal assault.”
Wylie said that they can’t say the place Rushdie is now.
Rushdie, who acquired demise threats all through his literary profession of greater than fifty years for his novel “The Satan’s Verses”, was attacked with a knife whereas on stage throughout a program he attended in New York on 12 August.
The 24-year-old US-born Hadi Matar, who carried out the assault, denied the tried homicide fees in opposition to her.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper, Wylie mentioned, “He misplaced an eye fixed. He had three very severe wounds on his neck. One hand cannot transfer in any respect due to the minimize nerves in her elbow,” she mentioned.
Requested whether or not Rushdie is being handled on the hospital, Wylie mentioned, “I am unable to give any details about the place he’s. However Rushdie is alive. That is the extra essential factor,” he replied.
“The Satanic Verses,” a surrealist and post-modern novel, was hailed by some Muslims as being a “blasphemous e-book.”
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Who’s Salman Rushdie?
The Indian-born British author turned well-known for his novel Midnight’s Kids, for which he gained the Booker Prize in 1981. The e-book has offered over one million copies within the UK alone.
The writer later acquired the Booker of Bookers awards in 1993 and the Better of Booker awards in 2008.
As quickly as Rushdie’s surrealist, post-modern novel The Satanic Verses was revealed in 1988, there have been outrages and requires its ban.
Iran’s chief, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a demise fatwa in opposition to the writer and positioned a $3 million bounty on “Rushdie’s head”. This case took the e-book to a different dimension, diplomatic crises.
Worldwide, 59 individuals died in reference to this problem, together with translators and those that died in demonstrations.
Whereas Rushdie was declared “infidel” by many Muslims, he turned the consultant of freedom of expression by some.
Though the Iranian authorities has since moved away from Khomeini’s decree, opposition to Rushdie persists.