Andrew Wiley, the agent of acclaimed Indian-born English author Salman Rushdie, has revealed the latest health developments after he was stabbed on stage at a literary event in West New York City.
This Saturday, the Associated Press quoted Wiley as saying that Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and is unable to speak.
Rushdi’s representative explained that he suffered from liver damage and severed nerves in one of his hands and one of his eyes. According to this news agency, Salman Rushdie will probably lose his injured eye.
And yesterday Friday someone attacked famous author Salman Rushdie before a speech in New York.
Eyewitnesses reported that an unknown person stormed the platform and started beating Rushdi with a knife and the assailant was arrested.
Rushdie has many detractors, and his novel Ayat Shaitani (1988) sparked a wave of angry protests in the Muslim world.
New York City police said Rushdie was shot in the neck and taken to the hospital.
Rushdie received numerous death threats, including a fatwa by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, calling for his assassination on 14 February 1989, and the British government placed Rushdie under police protection.
In 1983, Rushdie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Britain’s premier literary organization. In January 1999, Rushdie was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Rushdie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature in June 2007. The Times ranked him 13th in its list of the 50 greatest British writers from 1945 to 2008.
Source: Lebanon Debate
