I mean, there were tons of people that rushed the stage,” Schlosser said. Stacey Schlosser, who witnessed the attack, told The Associated Press news agency that Rushdie was stabbed six to eight times before the attacker was restrained. Rushdie won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel Midnight’s Children, but became widely known after the publication of The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims consider blasphemous They said they believed that Matar was acting alone. Major Eugene Staniszewski of New York state police told reporters on Friday afternoon that officials do not have “any indication of a motive” at this “very early” stage of the investigation. Police identified the suspect as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey. “Salman will likely lose one eye the nerves in his arm were severed and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” “The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, his book agent, wrote in an email to the Reuters news agency.
Police confirmed Rushdie was stabbed “at least once in the neck, and at least once in the abdomen” on Friday after an assailant rushed to the stage and lunged at the 75-year-old writer just as he was being introduced to the audience.Īfter being airlifted to hospital where he spent hours in surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening. The book was announced as one of the 14 titles in the longlist for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize on 18 September 2012.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 in southwestern New York state. The memoir is unusual in the sense that Rushdie writes about his life as "Joseph Anton" in the third person rather than the first person. It also includes the story of the break-up of his relationship with his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, and the acrimonious nature of their split, and his third and fourth marriages (and break-ups) to Elizabeth West and Padma Lakshmi. The memoir also discusses other aspects of his personal life, such as his friendship with other writers including Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Bill Buford, and Martin Amis, as well as public figures such as Alan Yentob.
Rushdie began to use "Joseph Anton" as a pseudonym Rushdie chose the alias to honor the writers Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov.
Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Rushdie accounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life. Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House.
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