NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie’s agent says the writer has misplaced sight in a single eye and the usage of a hand as he recovers from an assault from a person who rushed the stage at an August literary occasion in western New York, based on a broadcast report.
Literary agent Andrew Wylie advised the Spanish language newspaper El Pais in an article printed Saturday that Rushdie suffered three critical wounds to his neck and 15 extra wounds to his chest and torso within the assault that took away sight in a watch and left a hand incapacitated.
Rushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his demise after publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims take into account blasphemous. Over the previous 20 years, Rushdie has traveled freely.
Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, has been incarcerated after pleading not responsible to tried homicide and assault within the Aug. 12 assault on Rushdie as he was being launched on the Chautauqua Institution, a rurally situated heart 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo that’s identified for its summertime lecture sequence.
After the assault, Rushdie was handled at a Pennsylvania hospital, the place he was briefly placed on a ventilator to get better from what Wylie advised El Pais was a “brutal attack” that reduce nerves to at least one arm.
Wylie advised the newspaper he couldn’t say whether or not Rushdie remained in a hospital or talk about his whereabouts.
“He’s going to live … That’s the important thing,” Wylie mentioned.
The assault was alongside the traces of what Rushie and his agent have thought was the “principal danger … a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking,” Wylie advised El Pais.
“So you can’t protect against it because it’s totally unexpected and illogical,” he mentioned.
Wylie advised the newspaper it was like Beatles member John Lennon’s homicide. Lennon was shot to demise by Mark David Chapman exterior his Manhattan house constructing Dec. 8, 1980, hours after the singer had signed an autograph for Chapman.
In a jailhouse interview with The New York Post, Matar mentioned he disliked Rushdie and praised Khomeini. Iran has denied involvement within the assault.
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