SALMAN RUSHDIE LOST SIGHT IN EYE, USE OF HAND FOLLOWING ATTACK HIS AGENT SAYS

Sun 23 October 2022:

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the attack he suffered while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York state two months ago, his agent has confirmed.

“(His wounds) were profound, but he’s (also) lost the sight of one eye,” Andrew Wylie, a New York-based literary agent, told Spanish newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Saturday. “He had three serious wounds in his neck.”

Wylie also said that Rushdie’s one hand was incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut.

“He has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso. So, it was a brutal attack,” Wylie added.

Asked if Rushdie was still in hospital, he refused to give information about his whereabouts.

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“He’s going to live … That’s the more important thing,” he said.

Rushdie was stabbed while onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York on Aug. 12.

He is the author of several novels that won widespread acclaim, including Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981.

But his book, “The Satanic Verses,” which was published in 1988, stirred protests across the Muslim world with Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s former supreme leader, issuing a death fatwa against the author.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khomeini’s successor, said the fatwa was still valid in 2019.

Iran has denied any involvement with the attack on Rushdie.

The man accused of stabbing Rushdie pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges when he appeared in court on 18 August.

Hadi Matar, 24, was arraigned during a brief hearing in Chautauqua county district court on an indictment returned by a grand jury that charged him with one count of second-degree attempted murder and one count of second-degree assault.

Two weeks before the attack, Rushdie had told an interviewer that he felt his life was “very normal again” and that fears of an attack were a thing of the past.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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