Salman Rushdie attack: Know all about the Indian- born author

Name: Salman Rushdie attack: Know all about the Indian- born author
Uploaded: 2022-08-13T10:32:47+05:30
Duration: 10 min 11 s
Description: Salman Rushdie is currently on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck ahead of an address in New York. According to an update shared by his agent soon after the attack, the writer is likely to lose an eye and had suffered damage to his liver. Rushdie is a renowned author with many acclaimed books to his credit.

Salman Rushdie is currently on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck ahead of an address in New York. According to an update shared by his agent soon after the attack, the writer is likely to lose an eye and had suffered damage to his liver. Rushdie is a renowned author with many acclaimed books to his credit.

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Updated Aug 13, 2022, 10:33 IST

Delhi: Author Salman Rushdie is currently on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck ahead of an address in New York. According to an update shared by his agent soon after the attack, the writer is likely to lose an eye and had suffered damage to his liver. The alleged attacker meanwhile has been taken into custody and will likely be formally charged depending on Rushdie's condition.

Officials have said that Rushdie is currently hospitalized in Erie, Pennsylvania after being airlifted from the grounds of Chautauqua Institution's lecture.

Here’s all you need to know about the Indian-born author:

Salman Rushdie’s full name is Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie. He was born on June 19, 1947, in Bombay.
He graduated from the University of Cambridge, where he received an M.A. degree in history in 1968.
After graduating he worked in London as an advertising copywriter during the 1970’s. His first published novel, Grimus, appeared in 1975.
Grimus was partly a science fiction tale and did not receive any acclaim at the time. However, his next novel, Midnight's Children released in 1981 received tremendous accolades and cemented his position as literary nobility.
His most controversial work was the Satanic Verses which was published in 1988. The book was shunned by many in the Islamic world because some of them found the book to have an irreverent depiction of Muhammad.
The book was banned in many countries with a significant Muslim population (13 in total: Iran, India, Bangladesh, Sudan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Thailand, Tanzania, Indonesia, Singapore, Venezuela, and Pakistan).
This is not the first assassination attempt on the author. Previously in 1989, a book laced with RDX exploded prematurely in, Central London, killing the man who brought it. He was later found to be a member of a Lebanese group, the Organization of the Mujahidin of Islam. The organisation later said that he was martyred while preparing an attack "on the apostate Rushdie".

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