Salman Rushdie's life and career after the 2022 attack

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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times onstage in August 2022, resulting in severe injuries. The attack occurred before a lecture in western New York, leading to charges against Hadi Matar. Rushdie lost sight in one eye and suffered incapacitation in one hand. Rushdie, born in 1947, is known for "Midnight's Children" and faced a fatwa for "The Satanic Verses" in 1989. His memoir about the attack, "Knife," was published in 2024.


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