The crazed fanatic who tried to stab Salman Rushdie to death on a New York lecture stage — blinding the author in one eye — was sentenced Friday to the maximum term of 25 years in prison. Hadi ...

Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for ...

Rushdie: "They were looking at what I couldn’t see: me" 01:23 After being stabbed 15 times, Salman Rushdie's face was slashed open. In his book "Knife," he writes his face looked like "a sci-fi ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn't even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during ...

Salman Rushdie on the 2022 attack that nearly took his life, and writing his book "Knife" "The thing that's different now is that it's also coming from progressive voices," he said.

Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn’t even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during opening ...

In this Feb. 21, 2025, file photo, Hadi Matar, left, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, is led in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y.

Salman Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, is convicted on attempted murder charges in the 2022 stabbing in New York. Latest U.S.

Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall, his first published fiction since being severely injured in a stabbing during a lecture in New York in 2022.

The man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in 2022 has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison. Matar next faces a federal trial on terrorism-related charges.