Salman Rushdie

Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage ...

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Writer who spent years in hiding after Iranian fatwa was to speak about freedom of expression.

British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have made him the target of Iranian death threats, was attacked and stabbed in the neck at a literary event on ...

We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced.” “Midnight’s Children” — which runs to more than 600 pages — has been adapted for the stage and silver screen, and his books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was granted police protection by the government in Britain, where he was at school and where he made his home, following the murder or attempted murder of his translators and publishers. The fatwa failed to stifle Rushdie’s writing and inspired his memoirs “Joseph Anton,” named after his alias while in hiding and written in the third person. Police said that a male suspect stormed the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer, with the writer suffering “an apparent stab wound to the neck.” Rushdie, who was born in India to non-practicing Muslims and today identifies as an atheist, was forced to go underground as a bounty was put on his head — which remains today.

Salman Rushdie, author of Satanic Verses, which earned him many death threats and an Iranian Fatwa, stabbed at a literary event in New York .

It was Rushdie’s fourth novel. Rushdie was airlifted to an area hospital, the New York State Police said in a statement. Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses, which earned him many death threats and an Iranian Fatwa, was stabbed in the neck at a literary event in upstate New York Friday.

The author was about to give a talk at a prestigious event in Chautauqua, N.Y., when he was stabbed in the neck.

LeVan said attendees also came on to the stage to try to help. “I went to the talk to find out why people would want to kill someone for their writing,” he said. People in attendance were told to evacuate the venue after the attack. Friday’s attack on Rushdie, who has become the standard-bearer for the cause of literary freedom of expression, stunned free speech advocates and organizations. Book stores and people connected to the book around the world, such as publishers, were attacked. By 2005, Khomeini’s successor, Ali Khamenei, said the fatwa was still valid, and in 2016, state-run media outlets added an additional $600,000 to the bounty on Rushdie’s head, bringing it to well over $3 million.

A USA TODAY employee witnessed a man storm the stage in a "bizarre" attack on Salman Rushdie, who suffered an "apparent stab wound to the neck."

In it, Rushdie puts his spin on the Miguel de Cervantes classic with a modern-day Don Quixote satirizing former President Donald Trump’s America. The book was long-listed for the Booker Prize. His book "The Satanic Verses" has been banned in Iran since the late 1980s, and many Muslims consider it blasphemous. Seward said that he did not hear the man shout anything and that Rushdie tried to get away from the attacker and fell. "PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Salman Rushdie," Nossel said. He witnessed a man "bound" toward the stage from the audience with his "arms out swinging." New York police said a state trooper assigned to the event took a suspect into custody after the attack.

Updated August 12, 2022 at 2:11 PM ET. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born author who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday morning ...

The suspect was immediately taken into custody and Rushdie was transported to a local hospital. Police said a male suspect charged the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer at approximately 11 a.m. ET. Rushdie was transported to a local hospital by helicopter with an apparent stab wound to the neck, police said.

Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, has been attacked on stage in New York state. On Friday, Mr Rushdie was speaking at an event at the ...

We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages. “At about 11 am, a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer. In 1989, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini had called for Mr Rushdie’s execution and offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward. A total of 46.31 million was traded in foreign exchange at the official investors and exporters window on Friday. On Friday, Mr Rushdie was speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York when a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Mr Rushdie and an interviewer. Mr Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, the state police said in a statement.

Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist fatwa (death sentence) after writing 'The Satanic Verses', has been attacked on stage in New York ...

The surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among Muslim countries, who considered its content to be blasphemous, and was banned in some countries. The interviewer, Henry Reese, also suffered a minor head injury. New York State Police said a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Mr Rushdie and an interviewer.

Salman Rushdie is an author that has been controversial in some circles over his writing, specially with Iran, from where he received death threats in the ...

"The Satanic Verses" was banned in Iran, and the late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for his death in 1989 by issuing a fatwa or edict. Rushdie is 75 years old, and as he was being introduced to the audience in the Chautauqua Institution, a man confronted him on stage and began punching and/or stabbing him on multiple occasions as he fell to the floor. Rushdie was attacked today as he was about to give a lecture in western New York, and apparently was stabbed in the neck by his attacker after he rushed on to the stage.

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who ...

In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, including a round-the-clock armed guard. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man confront Rushdie on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds. Amid gasps, spectators were ushered out of the outdoor amphitheater. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Salman Rushdie, the author of "The Satanic Verses," was brutally attacked just as he was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua Institution.

Though we do not know the motivation of Salman Rushdie's attacker, the author has faced death threats for more than 30 years since the publication of The ...

That fatwa has never formally been rescinded. The fatwa called for the killing of anyone involved in the publication of the book and offered rewards to those who took part in the murders. - Rushdie faced death threats and went into hiding for nearly a decade after his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988.

Updated August 12, 2022 at 2:53 PM ET. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born author who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday morning ...

The suspect was immediately taken into custody and Rushdie was transported to a local hospital. Police said a male suspect charged the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer at approximately 11 a.m. ET. Rushdie was transported to a local hospital by helicopter with an apparent stab wound to the neck, police said.

The Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding under death threats from Iran because of his writing, Salman Rushdie, yesterday was stabbed in the neck ...

PEN America, an advocacy group for freedom of expression of which Rushdie is a former president, said it was “reeling from shock and horror” on what it called an unprecedented attack on a writer in the United States. “Salman Rushdie has been targeted for his words for decades but has never flinched nor faltered,” Suzanne Nossel, PEN’s chief executive, said in the statement. His second novel, ‘Midnight Children’, is a magical realism allegory set during the 1947 partition of India, and won the Booker Prize. His new novel ‘Victory City’ is due to be published in February. He has been a fierce critic of religion across the spectrum. Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the novel, was murdered in 1991. Iranian organisations, some affiliated with the government, have raised a bounty worth millions of dollars for Rushdie’s murder. Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in Bombay, now known as Mumbai, before moving to the United Kingdom, has faced death threats for his fourth novel, ‘The Satanic Verses’, which some Muslims said contained blasphemous passages.

The Indian-born writer has been stabbed in New York, and it's not his first brush with violence.

He has been living in the US since 2000. “I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they may be found, so that no one else will dare to insult the Muslim sanctities. The assailant, who eyewitnesses claim was wearing a black mask, was restrained and taken into custody.

The Satanic Verses author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York state.

"Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. There has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie's stabbing. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution. A doctor in the audience gave Mr Rushdie first aid. A year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.

The attack happened shortly after Mr Rushdie took the stage for a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, a community that offers arts...

In 1993, the book’s Norwegian publisher was shot three times and survived,” the AP said. Good journalism costs a lot of money. “I want to commend the state police.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been stabbed as he was about to give a lecture ...

Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the money and published a memoir, Joseph Anton, about his ordeal. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. The author, who currently lives in the US, had lived under police protection because of threats to his life. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” Ever since, the threat picture against Salman Rushdie seems to have reduced significantly, but clearly not enough.” Stunned attendees helped pull the man off Rushdie, who had fallen to the floor.

The British author of “The Satanic Verses”, which sparked fury among some Muslims who believed it was blasphemous, had to be airlifted to hospital for emergency ...

We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced.” A doctor in the audience administered medical care until emergency first responders arrived. LeVan, a Chautauqua regular, said the suspect “was trying to stab him as many times as possible before he was subdued,” adding that he believed the man “was trying to kill” Rushdie. He was granted police protection by the government in Britain, where he was at school and where he made his home, following the murder or attempted murder of his translators and publishers. “What many of us witnessed today was a violent expression of hate that shook us to our core,” the Chautauqua Institution said in a statement. His agent said in a statement obtained by The New York Times that “the news is not good.”

The news is not good. Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed, and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” the statement said.

“The news is not good. We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages. “At about 11 am, a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer. In 1989, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini had called for Mr Rushdie’s execution and offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward. But here is an individual who has spent decades speaking truth to power, someone who’s been out there unafraid, despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life,” Ms Hochul said. “The news is not good.

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New ...

That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.

Mr Rushdie went into hiding with police protection in the UK in 1988 after Iran's top leader called for his murder over his novel, The Satanic Verses, which ...

“Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. There has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie’s stabbing. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution. A doctor in the audience gave Mr Rushdie first aid. A year after the book’s release, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie’s execution. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.