The 76-year-old novelist suffered life-changing injuries, including the loss of his sight in one eye and limited feeling in his left hand, in the attack at a literary event in New York state in August 2022.
Author Sir Salman Rushdie has described the moment before he was stabbed at a literary festival, saying he saw a 'murderous shape rushing towards' him like a 'squat missile'. The novelist was stabbed multiple times during the attack, which took place moments before he was due to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state in August 2022.
' In 1989, Iran's then-leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Sir Salman's death following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, which many Muslims consider blasphemous. Sir Salman lived under police protection for years following the declaration of the fatwa and multimillion-pound bounty, and faced death threats and a failed assassination attempt in London in 1989.
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