Salman Rushdie lost sight in one of his eyes and used one of his hands after repeating it Stabbed during a literary event In upstate New York two months ago, his agent said.
The 75-year-old author, whose 1988 novel The Satanic Verses forced him into hiding amid calls to be killed, was stabbed in the neck and torso while walking on stage to deliver a speech at the Chautauqua Institute on August 12. .
But the full extent of his injuries was not revealed until Saturday, when his agent Andrew Wiley gave an update on his condition in an interview with the Spanish newspaper, El País.
“[His wounds] It was deep, but it [also] Willie said. He sustained three serious injuries to his neck. One hand is helpless due to a nerve cut in his arm. He has about 15 other injuries to his chest and torso. Therefore, it was a brutal attack.”
The agent declined to say if Rushdie was still being treated in hospital, but said the important thing was that the world-renowned author would survive.
Wylie added that the possibility of an attack was something they had in mind.
I think the attack may have been something Salman and I have discussed in the past, which is that the main danger he faced after many years of imposing the fatwa was from a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking [him]Willie said.
Rushdie was in upstate New York to give a lecture when the attack occurred.
Rushdie was stabbed in the neck in upstate New York in August.
Law enforcement officers are holding Hadi Matar outside an institution in upstate New York following the attack.
The author was taken away by air medics after the attack.
“So, you can’t protect against it because it is completely unexpected and illogical. It was like the murder of John Lennon.”
Lives in New Jersey Hadi Matar, 24 years old, was arrested In Rushdie’s stabbing incident, he pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and second-degree assault in August.
New York State Police said Rushdie was about to begin his scheduled lecture when Matar charged the platform with a knife in his hand, stabbing the British author in the neck and torso.
Rushdie spent nearly a decade in hiding after The Satanic Verses was published, angering some who called the novel blasphemous. Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian leader, issued a fatwa known as the fatwa, calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie, a year after the book was published.
