MADRID —
Author Salman Rushdie lost vision in one eye and was left “incapacitated” in a
hand after he was stabbed in the US in August, his agent said in an interview
published this weekend.
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The 75-year-old
writer, who had received several death threats after the publication of his The
Satanic Verses, was stabbed several times in the neck and abdomen before he was
due to give a talk in the state of New York.
Rushdie was then
air-lifted to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery, but his condition had
improved in the weeks after.
“He’s lost the
sight of one eye... He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is
incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he has about 15 more
wounds in his chest and torso,” Andrew Wylie told Spanish daily El Pais,
providing an update on Rushdie’s health.
The injuries “were
profound... it was a brutal attack”, Wylie added.
He would not give
any information about the writer’s whereabouts, or whether he was still in
hospital, but said: “He’s going to live.”
The British author
had lived in hiding for years after Iran’s first supreme leader Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the blasphemous nature
of The Satanic Verses.
The main suspect,
Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old from New Jersey with roots in Lebanon, was arrested
immediately after the attack on Rushdie. He then pleaded not guilty during a
hearing in New York state in mid-August.
The attack sparked outrage
in the West, but was praised by extremists in Muslim countries like Iran and
Pakistan.
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