Salman Rushdie Health Updates: In August, after being attacked on stage at a literary event in western New York, Salman Rushdie lost the sight in one eye and the use of one hand, according to his agent.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Andrew Wylie, who represents literary luminaries including Saul Bellow and Roberto Bolano, highlighted the severity of the injuries Rushdie sustained in the “brutal” attack.
Wylie called the author’s injuries “deep” and mentioned that one of the author’s eyes had lost its vision. “He has three significant injuries to his neck. The nerves in his arm were severed, leaving him the use of one hand. He also has another 15 or so wounds in his torso and chest.”
When was he stabbed?
The 75-year-old author of “The Satanic Verses” was allegedly stabbed in the neck and torso by a 24-year-old New Jersey man just before Rushdie was scheduled to deliver a lecture at Chautauqua Institution, a retreat located about 12 miles (19 km) from Lake Erie. The agent declined to comment on whether Rushdie was still hospitalised more than two months later.
According to Wylie at the time, the novelist was taken to the hospital right away after the attack left him with serious wounds, including nerve damage in his arm, injury to his liver, and the potential loss of an eye.
Why was he stabbed?
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran at the time, called on Muslims to assassinate Rushdie a few months after “The Satanic Verses” was released in a fatwa, or religious edict, 33 years before to the incident. Some Muslims considered the book’s references to the Prophet Muhammad to be disrespectful.
Rushdie, who spent nine years hiding under the protection of the British police and was born in India to a Muslim Kashmiri family, has lived with a price on his head.
The multimillion dollar prize on Rushdie’s head kept rising, and the fatwa was never withdrawn even as Iran’s pro-reform administration under President Mohammad Khatami distanced itself from it in the late 1990s.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khomeini’s successor, was banned from Twitter in 2019 for declaring that the fatwa against Rushdie was “irrevocable.”
The suspect in the assault on the novelist has entered a not guilty plea to counts of assault and second-degree attempted murder. In a jail in western New York, he is being detained without bail.
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