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Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

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Updated: August 12th, 2022, 22:46 IST
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Author Salman Rushdie is attended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in New York AP Photo

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New York: Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born controversial author who faced Islamist death threats after writing ‘The Satanic Verses’, was attacked and suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck when a man stormed the stage during an event here Friday. The attack took place when Salman Rushdie was getting ready to deliver a lecture, New York police said.

Rushdie, 75, who won the ‘Booker Prize’ for his novel ‘Midnight’s Childre’’, was stabbed by a man on stage while he was being introduced at the event of the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York. He fell through a barrier to the stage and was seen with blood on his hands. The audience tackled the attacker and Rushdie was then treated onstage following the assault.

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“State police are investigating an attack on author Salman Rushdie prior to a speaking event at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. On August 12, 2022, at about 11.00am (local time), a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer,” New York police said in a statement.

“Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, and was transported by helicopter to an area hospital. His condition is not yet known. The interviewer suffered a minor head injury. A state trooper assigned to the event immediately took the suspect into custody. The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene,” police said.

Rushdie’s fourth book ‘The Satanic Verses’ in 1988 forced him into hiding for nine years.

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Salman Rushdie PTI photo

A year after the book’s publication, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for Rushdie’s execution for publishing the book for its blasphemous content.

Since the 1980s, Rushdie’s writing has led to death threats from Iran, which has offered a USD 3 million reward for anyone who kills him.

“Thank you to the swift response of @nyspolice & first responders following today’s attack of author Salman Rushdie. Our thoughts are with Salman & his loved ones following this horrific event. I have directed State Police to further assist however needed in the investigation,” said New York State Governor Kathy Hochul.

A leading literary organisation expressed ‘shock and horror’ at the ‘brutal, premeditated’ attack on Rushdie.

“PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York,” PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement.

“We can think of no comparable incident of a public violent attack on a literary writer on American soil. While we do not know the origins or motives of this attack, all those around the world who have met words with violence or called for the same are culpable for legitimising this assault on a writer while he was engaged in his essential work of connecting to readers,” Nossel added.

Nossel said that just hours before the attack, Salman had emailed her to help with placements for Ukrainian writers in need of safe refuge from the grave perils they face.

“Salman Rushdie has been targeted for his words for decades but has never flinched nor faltered. He has devoted tireless energy to assisting others who are vulnerable and menaced. Our thoughts and passions now lie with our dauntless Salman, wishing him a full and speedy recovery. We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced,” Nossel said.

Several users on the social media site posted visuals from the event in Chautauqua that showed emergency medical crews and other authorities on stage at the event where Rushdie was reportedly stabbed.

One Twitter user said the amphitheater where the event was being held has been evacuated and Rushdie was taken off the stage while the attacker is in custody.

“One of the most celebrated authors of our time, Salman Rushdie is the author of 14 novels, four works of nonfiction and a collection of short stories, in addition to serving as co-editor of two anthologies,” said a Twitter user.

The winner of many of the world’s top literary prizes, Rushdie served as founding president in 1994 of the International Parliament of Writers (now the International Network of Cities of Asylum) — an organisation formed to create structures capable of aiding and supporting persecuted writers, and what eventually became known as the ‘Cities of Asylum Network’.

Rushdie’s works include ‘Luka and the Fire of Life’; ‘Grimus’; ‘Midnight’s Children’ (for which he won the Booker Prize and, later, the Best of the Booker); ‘Shame’; ‘The Satanic Verses’; ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories’; ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’; ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’; ‘Fury’ and ‘Shalimar the Clown’ among others.

His memoir is titled ‘Joseph Anton’ – named for the pseudonym he used while in hiding following the fatwa that had been issued by Khomeini in the midst of widespread controversy over Rushdie’s novel ‘The Satanic Verses’.

 

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