Salman Rushdie

2022 - 10 - 23

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Salman Rushdie lives, but reportedly loses use of eye and hand (Politico)

Rushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death after publication of his novel “ ...

a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking,” Wylie told El Pais. 8, 1980, hours after the singer had signed an autograph for Chapman. Over the past two decades, Rushdie has traveled freely.

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Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand, says ... (The Guardian)

Full extent of injuries from 'brutal attack' on Satanic Verses author in New York state in August revealed.

Wylie also said he and Rushdie had talked about the possibility of such an attack in the past. “I think nationalism is on the rise, a sort of fundamentalist right is on the rise … And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso. Elsewhere in the interview, Wylie said the world was going through “a very troubled period” – not least in the US. “He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut.

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Salman Rushdie 'loses sight in one eye and use of hand' (Financial Times)

Author of 'The Satanic Verses' has sustained permanent injuries after knife attack in New York state, his agent says.

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Salman Rushdie lost partial vision, use of hand after attack, rep says (The Washington Post)

In an interview with El País, Andrew Wylie said novelist Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in August, lost vision in one eye and the use of one of his hands.

In an [interview with the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/alleged-salman-rushdie-attacker-didnt-think-author-would-survive/), Matar would not say whether he was inspired by the fatwa, but he praised Khomeini and told the paper that he was surprised Rushdie survived. He told The Post in 1992 that [he wasn’t sure he’d ever be safe](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/08/15/salman-rushdie-in-hiding/?itid=lk_inline_manual_19), though in recent years Rushdie made public appearances without visible guards. [were the victims of separate stabbings in 1991](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/07/13/satanic-verses-translator-found-slain/6ee67d24-9b02-4eaf-994e-107ff814f64f/?itid=lk_inline_manual_19). [The Satanic Verses](https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004KABDMA&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_PZQPGA55G7YQ5XEYB27W&tag=thewaspos09-20),” Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini denounced the novel’s treatment of Islam as blasphemous and issued a fatwa, or religious decree, calling for Rushdie’s assassination. He told the Associated Press that Rushdie suffered damage to his liver and to nerves in one arm, adding that the author might lose an eye. Rushdie, who police said had been stabbed in the neck and abdomen, was airlifted to a hospital and put on a ventilator.

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Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye after attack, says agent (Aljazeera.com)

Agent says Salman Rushdie suffered 'profound' wounds after August attack including losing one eye and the use of a hand.

a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking,” Wylie told El Pais. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso,” Wylie said. He had three serious wounds in his neck.

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