Salman Rushdie

The author, 75, has suffered years of Islamist death threats since writing The Satanic Verses.

His next novel, Victory City, is due to be published in February 2023. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution. 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. That fatwa has never formally been rescinded. Mr Rushdie was stabbed at least once in the neck, and at least once in the abdomen.

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.

Friday's knife attack on Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

For almost 13 years he moved between safe houses under the pseudonym of Joseph Anton, changing base 56 times in the first six months. Some 20 countries went on to outlaw it. He then realises his error. After many years living in the shadows, he became something of a socialite and is seen by many in the West as a free speech hero. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream." In a fatwa, or religious decree, Ayatollah Khomeini urged "Muslims of the world rapidly to execute the author and the publishers of the book" so that "no one will any longer dare to offend the sacred values of Islam."

CHAUTAUQUA, New York: Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after he was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, ...

"I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," said Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and human rights activist who was in the audience. "The worst thing Chautauqua could do is back away from its mission in light of this tragedy, and I don't think Mr Rushdie would want that either." Rushdie published a memoir in 2012 about his cloistered, secretive life under the fatwa called Joseph Anton, the pseudonym he used while in British police protection. The Iranian government said in 1998 it would no longer back the fatwa, and Rushdie has lived relatively openly in recent years. "A man jumped up on the stage from I don't know where and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," said Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience. A doctor in the audience helped tend to Rushdie while emergency services arrived, police said.

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.

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Earlier in the morning, Rushdie had emailed her to help with relocating Ukrainian writers seeking refuge, she said. Fars called Mr Rushdie an apostate who “insulted the Prophet” in its report on Friday’s attack. His second novel, Midnight’s Children, won the Booker Prize. His new novel Victory City is due to be published in February. Iranian organisations, some affiliated with the government, have raised a bounty worth millions of dollars for Mr Rushdie’s murder. Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the novel, was murdered in 1991. The novel was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations upon its 1988 publication.

NEW YORK: Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the ...

"I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," said Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and human rights activist who was in the audience. "The worst thing Chautauqua could do is back away from its mission in light of this tragedy, and I don't think Mr Rushdie would want that either." Rushdie published a memoir in 2012 about his cloistered, secretive life under the fatwa called Joseph Anton, the pseudonym he used while in British police protection. The Iranian government said in 1998 it would no longer back the fatwa, and Rushdie has lived relatively openly in recent years. "A man jumped up on the stage from I don't know where and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," said Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience. A doctor in the audience helped tend to Rushdie while emergency services arrived, police said.

Just as the mind recoils at the sight of a single book burned, the spilled blood of an author inspires revulsion.

In some ways, he never stopped fighting the debate that first ignited around the fatwa, with some defending him unreservedly and others arguing that perhaps his perceived insult of Islam was a mistake and a needless provocation on his part. Rushdie himself has become something of an absolutist on the freedom of expression. Rushdie has not been targeted by his own state, of course—after living in hiding for years in London, he has lived openly in New York for the past two decades. The Yiddish poets and writers whom the dictator ordered shot in the basement of the Lubyanka prison. That it was here that Rushdie was struck repeatedly with a knife is a terrible irony. He was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua Institution, a cottage community that was founded in the late 19th century as a place for religious learning, and that has since become an oasis of education and discussion every summer.

Sir Salman Rushdie is reportedly on a ventilator and may lose an eye after he was stabbed on stage in New York state.

Salman Rushdie spent years in hiding after the leadership of Iran called for his death following the publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses.

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.

Praise for attack on writer targeted by decades-old fatwa comes as some fear incident will leave Iran more isolated.

“As I have already said, this is a bullet for which there is a target. “The decision made about Salman Rushdie is still valid,” Khamenei said in 1989. Staffers there declined to immediately comment, referring questions to an official not in the office. Early on Saturday, Iranian state media made a point of mentioning a man identified as being killed while trying to carry out the fatwa. “This is the fate for anybody who insults sanctities.” “The news is not good.

TEHRAN: Iranian ultra-conservative newspaper Kayhan on Saturday (Aug 13) hailed the man who stabbed British author Salman Rushdie - the target of a 1989 ...

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As author remains on a ventilator, messages of support champion free speech and talk of his 'extraordinary resilience'

Poster of The Moor’s Last Sigh had place on my (pretentious) student bedroom wall. We are all hoping he is OK,” he added. Sunak described the novelist as “a champion of free speech and artistic freedom”, adding that he was “in our thoughts”. The comedian and author David Baddiel described the incident as “appalling”. “It’s also appalling that there are people who will think he brought it on himself or somehow deserved it,” he added. The novelist Lisa Appignanesi, the former president of English PEN and a campaigner for free expression, praised Rushdie’s “extraordinary resilience and his deep, deep courage” in the face of threats to his life. Writers and politicians have condemned the attack on Salman Rushdie as the novelist remains on a ventilator in the US.

Messages of outrage and support are pouring in from all corners of the globe after writer Salman Rushdie was stabbed at an upstate New York venue where he ...

"He has devoted tireless energy to assisting others who are vulnerable and menaced." "Devastated by the news about @SalmanRushdie. He was the first writer I ever met and his determination to defend his freedom (and that of others) in the face of religious extremism has been a constant inspiration. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. American writers and organizations have also been left reeling from the attack. Bravo to the warrior and dutiful man who attacked the Apostate and wicked Salman Rushdie. The hand of the warrior must be kissed. "Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend.

'Satanic Verses' author may lose one eye as a result of Friday's assault, his agent says.

“Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. As a result of the stabbing, “the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was … damaged,” Wylie said. On Saturday French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Rushdie as a person who had “embodied freedom and the fight against obscurantism,” adding the author’s “fight is our fight; it is universal.”

WASHINGTON: Hadi Matar, the suspect in the attack on author Salman Rushdie at an event in New York state, has been charged with attempted murder and is ...

Ali Tehfe, mayor of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, said Matar was the son of a man from the town. In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on Muslims to kill the author and anyone involved in the book's publication for blasphemy. There was no visible police presence on Saturday at the house, a two-story brick-and-mortar home in a largely Spanish-speaking neighborhood. Matar was born in California and recently moved to New Jersey, the NBC New York report said, adding that he had a fake driver's license on him. Rushdie was stabbed 10 times, prosecutors said during Matar's arraignment, according to the Times. In a statement on Saturday, President Joe Biden commended the "universal ideals" that Rushdie and his work embody.

Suspect, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey remanded without bail over alleged attack on author in New York.

A helicopter crew flew Rushdie to a hospital in nearby Erie, Pennsylvania, where he underwent surgery. He suffered a relatively minor facial wound during the attack. The crime, under New York law, can carry up to 25 years in prison upon conviction. Rushdie suffered three stab wounds to the right front of his neck, another four to his stomach, one each to his right eye and chest, and a cut to his right thigh, Schmidt said on Saturday. Investigators had earlier booked Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, with one count of attempted second-degree murder in Rushdie’s stabbing and one count of second-degree assault on a man who shared a stage with the author at the time of the attack on Friday, according to a statement from authorities. The man suspected of stabbing the novelist Salman Rushdie at a literary festival in western New York pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault at a court appearance on Saturday.

After the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, state and federal investigators were trying to ...

The novel’s Norwegian publisher was shot three times in 1993 outside his home in Oslo and was seriously injured. A spokeswoman for a hospital in Erie, Pa., where Mr. Rushdie is being treated, said it would not provide information on patient conditions. A woman in a gray Jeep Rubicon in the driveway kept her windows up, waving off reporters as she sped away. In court, prosecutors said that the attack on the author was premeditated and targeted. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran after its 1979 revolution, issued an edict known as a fatwa on Feb. 14, 1989. When Mr. Matar, a United States citizen, was arrested, he was carrying two fake IDs, according to a law enforcement official. People started to congregate in the aisles. Mr. Rushdie, who had been living relatively openly after years of a semi-clandestine existence, had just taken a seat to give a talk when a man attacked him. A video on TikTok that was subsequently taken down showed the chaotic scene moments after the attacker had jumped onto the stage at the normally placid institution. Security at the Chautauqua Institution is minimal. A crowd of people immediately rushed to where the author lay on the stage to offer aid. Nathaniel Barone, a public defender, entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.

The stabbing attack came after years of Islamist death threats against the Indian-born novelist over The Satanic Verses, published in 1988. Fellow authors such ...

"He has also supported other writers across the world who have been suffering from other sorts of pressures. "Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. He is a fiery and generous spirit, a man of immense talent and courage and he will not be deterred," he added.

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Two works - The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children - occupy spots on Amazon's "Movers & Shakers" list. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"Some of our younger employees had never heard of him. Police and witnesses said 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairfield, New Jersey, was wrestled to the ground as he continued his attack, which left Rushdie in serious condition. At the sprawling Strand Bookstore, New York's biggest and probably most famous book emporium, the attack brought a spike in interest, and in sales of new and used Rushdie volumes.

Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York. We, together with all Americans and.

Salman Rushdie—with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced—stands for essential, universal ideals. Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York. We, together with all Americans and people around the world, are praying for his health and recovery. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression.

Aug 13 (Reuters) - Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie remained hospitalized on Saturday with serious injuries a day after he was repeatedly stabbed at a public ...

Ali Tehfe, mayor of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, said Matar was the son of a man from the town. In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on Muslims to kill the author and anyone involved in the book's publication for blasphemy. Matar was born in California and recently moved to New Jersey, the NBC New York report said, adding that he had a fake driver's license on him. There was no visible police presence on Saturday at the house, a two-story brick-and-mortar home in a largely Spanish-speaking neighborhood. Rushdie was stabbed 10 times, prosecutors said during Matar's arraignment, according to the New York Times. In a statement on Saturday, President Joe Biden commended the "universal ideals" that Rushdie and his work embody.

Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked this week. He has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was ...

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The terrorist assault on Salman Rushdie on Friday morning, in western New York, was triply horrific to contemplate. First in its sheer brutality and cruelty ...

(Nor was he unwilling to be self-deprecatingly comic in order to assist a social occasion; I recall him once doing a karaoke version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” at a party in London.) In the thirty years or so that I have known him—far from intimately but steadily and always pleasurably—I was always impressed by the effortless equanimity with which, in public at least, he dealt with his strange fate. Finally, if more locally, it was horrific because it had seemed to those who knew him that the fatwa had faded in significance and threat, that it had become the subject for retrospective memoir, as in his fine one, “ Joseph Anton,” and even for actual comedy. This is a doubly despicable viewpoint, not only because there was no actual insult offered but also because the right to be insulting about other people’s religions—or their absence of one—is a fundamental right, part of the inheritance of the human spirit. What makes the story so tragic, and the comic-television moment so illustrative of his nature, is that Salman, to those who knew him—no, know him—as a friend, was the most amiable of men, the least narrowly contentious, the most rational and reasonable guy they would ever meet. He was a writer, with a writer’s pastimes and a writer’s rights. For the next decade, Rushdie was under protection and, though far from disappearing from the world—for the most part, he went where he wanted—it was always under guard.

Messages voice shock and outrage, along with expressions of support and solidarity for the writer. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The novel's Norwegian publisher was shot three times in 1993 outside his home in Oslo and was seriously injured. In court, prosecutors said that the attack on the author was premeditated and targeted. A woman in a grey Jeep Rubicon in the driveway kept her windows up, waving off reporters as she sped away. A spokesman for a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where Rushdie is being treated, said it would not provide information on patient conditions. People started to congregate in the aisles. Security at the Chautauqua Institution is minimal.

Author seriously injured in New York stabbing remains in hospital, as Joe Biden praises his courage and suspect denies attempted murder.

A motive for the attack appears to be unclear. As of Saturday afternoon, the novel ranked No 13 on Amazon.com. Iran’s theocratic government and its state-run media assigned no motive for the attack. Authors, activists and government officials cited Rushdie’s courage and longtime advocacy of free speech despite the risks to his own safety. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression,” the president said in a statement. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell “strongly” condemned the attack on Saturday night.

Sir Salman Rushdie has been taken off his ventilator and is talking as he recovers from being stabbed in the US.

"The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed in upstate New York.

He and Rushdie had planned to discuss the United States as a refuge for writers and other artists in exile. But afterward some longtime visitors to the Chautauqua Institution questioned why there wasn't tighter security given the threats against Rushdie and a bounty of more than $3 million on his head. As of Saturday afternoon, the novel ranked No. 13 on Amazon.com. It looked like it was the worst day of his life," Boyle said. After nine years of seclusion, Rushdie cautiously resumed more public appearances. "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats after it was published in 1988, with many Muslims regarding as blasphemy a dream sequence based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections. Iran's theocratic government and its state-run media assigned no motive for the attack. He said Matar resisted attempts by him and others to welcome and engage him. Khomeini died that same year, but the fatwa remains in effect. "His resources don't matter to me. These are the building blocks of any free and open society." Authors, activists and government officials cited Rushdie's courage and longtime advocacy of free speech despite the risks to his own safety.