In addition, the 75-year-old suffered three serious injuries to his neck and around 15 other injuries to his chest and upper body. Wylie did not say where the author is or if he is still in the hospital.
“He will live,” he said simply. The British-Indian writer was attacked with a knife on August 12 at a reading in Chautauqua, New York. The 24-year-old attacker, a US citizen of Lebanese origin, has to answer in court on charges of “attempted murder”.
The attack caused great horror in the western world. Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1989 calling for the writer to be killed because of alleged insults to the Prophet Mohammed in Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses”. For years, Rushdie lived under tight police protection in ever-changing secret locations. For some time now, however, he has been leading a relatively normal life again and has made frequent public appearances.
Source: Nachrichten
