In Knife, the novelist goes back to Chautauqua, where he was nearly killed in a 2022 attack.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, ...

Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack. Matar was found guilty on Friday.

A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault ...

Feb. 21, 2025 A jury in western New York on Friday found a New Jersey man guilty of attempted murder in the stabbing of the author Salman Rushdie, which left him partially blind. The conviction of ...

MAYVILLE, New York (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. Jurors, who deliberated for ...

PHOTO: In this Sept. 21, 2024, file photo, Salman Rushdie, author, is shown during the Cliveden Literary Festival 2024 at Cliveden House in Windsor, England. (David Levenson/Getty Images, FILE ...

Author Salman Rushdie was the key witness during seven days of testimony, describing in graphic detail his life-threatening injuries and long and painful recovery.

During the attack, a small group of people immediately surrounded Rushdie and held up his legs to try and send blood to his chest. The author was taken by helicopter to a local hospital ...

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture in New York was convicted Friday on attempted murder charges. Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. Jurors, who deliberated for ...