The acclaimed author is recovering from up to 15 stab wounds after the attack in New York.
23 October 2022, 17:34 | Updated: 23 October 2022, 17:49Salman Rushdie was the subject of a failed assassination attempt in August.
Literary agent Andrew Wylie told the Spanish language newspaper El Pais that the author suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more wounds to his chest and torso in the attack that took away the sight in one eye and left a hand incapacitated. Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, has been in custody after pleading not guilty to attempted murder and assault in the August 12 attack on Sir Salman as he was being introduced at the Chautauqua Institution, a rurally located centre 55 miles south-west of Buffalo that is known for its summertime lecture series.
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