British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie’s agent Andrew Wylie has confirmed that Rushdie is “on the road to recovery” two days after The Satanic Verses author was seriously injured in a stabbing incident at a lecture in upstate New York. York. .

Wylie said, according to the Associated Press, that while Rushdie’s condition is “going in the right direction,” his recovery will be a long process.

Rushdie, 75, suffered liver damage, severed nerves in his arm and eye, Wylie previously reported, and is likely to lose the affected eye.

Previously convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie, a 24-year-old Lebanese-American named Hadi Murad appeared before a New York court where he pleaded not guilty to charges of “attempted murder” of a British writer. It is worth noting that the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini Mousavi, sentenced Rushdie to death in 1989 because of his novel The Satanic Verses, which was considered offensive to Islam.