Months after being stabbed repeatedly as he prepared to give a lecture, Salman Rushdie is blind in his right eye, struggles to write and, at times, has 'frightening' nightmares.
abc.net.au/news/salman-rushdie-first-interview-since-stabbing/101939284Months after being stabbed repeatedly as he prepared to give a lecture, Salman Rushdie is blind in his right eye, struggles to write and, at times, has "frightening" nightmares.The Satanic Verses author was stabbed 15 times while on stage in New York stateBut, he has said during his first interview since the attack, he still has a feeling of gratitude."But, considering what happened, I'm not so bad.
The magazine said Rushdie had scar tissue on the right side of his face, his lower lip drooped on one side as he spoke and the ulnar nerve in his left hand was badly damaged.The 75-year-old lived in hiding for years after Iran's then-grand ayatollah, Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa in 1989 calling for his death due to alleged blasphemy in the novel The Satanic Verses.
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