rushdie: Salman Rushdie lives, however loses use of eye and hand

Salman Rushdie’s agent says the creator has misplaced sight in a single eye and using a hand as he recovers from an assault from a person who rushed the stage at an August literary occasion in western New York, in line with a printed report.

Literary agent Andrew Wylie informed the Spanish language newspaper El Pais in an article revealed Saturday that Rushdie suffered three critical wounds to his neck and 15 extra wounds to his chest and torso within the assault that took away sight in a watch and left a hand incapacitated.

Rushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his demise after publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims think about blasphemous. Over the previous 20 years, Rushdie has traveled freely.

Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, has been incarcerated after pleading not responsible to tried homicide and assault within the Aug. 12 assault on Rushdie as he was being launched on the Chautauqua Establishment, a rurally positioned heart 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo that’s identified for its summertime lecture sequence.

After the assault, Rushdie was handled at a Pennsylvania hospital, the place he was briefly placed on a ventilator to recuperate from what Wylie informed El Pais was a “brutal assault” that minimize nerves to 1 arm.

Wylie informed the newspaper he couldn’t say whether or not Rushdie remained in a hospital or focus on his whereabouts.

“He’ll stay … That is the essential factor,” Wylie mentioned.

The assault was alongside the strains of what Rushie and his agent have thought was the “principal hazard … a random individual popping out of nowhere and attacking,” Wylie informed El Pais.

“So you possibly can’t defend towards it as a result of it’s very sudden and illogical,” he mentioned.

Wylie informed the newspaper it was like Beatles member John Lennon’s homicide. Lennon was shot to demise by Mark David Chapman outdoors his Manhattan condominium constructing Dec. 8, 1980, hours after the singer had signed an autograph for Chapman.

In a jailhouse interview with The New York Submit, Matar mentioned he disliked Rushdie and praised Khomeini. Iran has denied involvement within the assault.