The consequences of the stabbing in August are beginning to become clear to the writer Salman Rushdie (75). In an interview with the Spanish newspaper ‘El País’, his manager Andrew Wylie says that he can no longer see out of one eye and that he can no longer use one of his hands.
“He had three serious injuries to the neck and about 15 other injuries to his upper body. It was a brutal attack,” Wylie said. Rushdie can no longer use one of his hands because the nerves in that arm have been severed.
His manager would not say whether the author is still in hospital to ‘El Pais’. “He will live, that’s the most important thing,” Wylie said. He declined to comment on Rushdie’s location.
The writer of “The Satanic Verses” was stabbed in mid-August while about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York state. The motive of 24-year-old suspect Hadi Matar was not immediately clear and the American of Lebanese descent continued to maintain his innocence.
Check out the footage of the incident below:
In 1989, then-Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme religious leader of the Islamic Republic, issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death. His novel The Satanic Verses called the Ayatollah blasphemous and anti-Islamic.
Rushdie then went into hiding for ten years under constant protection from the British police. Recently he could live relatively free again. In 2016, he became a US citizen and resided in New York City. Rushdie was born in India to a Muslim family and is a champion of freedom of expression. View a portrait of the author below.
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