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Author Salman Rushdie has misplaced his sight in a single eye and one in all his fingers is “incapacitated” following a stabbing assault in August, in accordance with an interview given by his agent to a Spanish newspaper.
Rushdie, 75, underwent emergency surgical procedure after he was stabbed a number of instances earlier than his scheduled lecture on the Chautauqua Institution in New York on August 12.
Staff members and friends then rushed onto the stage and held down the suspect, recognized as 24-year-old Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, earlier than a state trooper assigned to the occasion took him into custody, in accordance with New York State Police.
Matar has pleaded not responsible to tried homicide within the second diploma, and second-degree assault, over the assault.
Speaking to El País, literary agent Andrew Wylie stated, “[His wounds] were profound, but he’s [also] 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. So, it was a brutal attack.”
Wylie declined to inform the newspaper if Rushdie was nonetheless hospitalized and didn’t specify when he had final been up to date on Rushdie’s situation, in accordance with an English language write-up of the interview. He stated a very powerful factor was the author was going to stay.
Wylie additionally informed El País he and Rushdie had talked about the opportunity of such an assault up to now. “The principal danger that he faced so many years after the fatwa was imposed is from a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking [him],” he stated. “So, you can’t protect against that because it’s totally unexpected and illogical. It was like John Lennon’s murder.”
El Pais stated the interview was carried out from a resort suite Wednesday night, through the Frankfurt e-book honest.
CNN has contacted Wylie however didn’t obtain an instantaneous response.