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Booker Prize-winning author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is "pleased" that the man who brutally attacked him on stage in 2022 has been handed the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
Rushdie read several excerpts from "Knife" for 60 Minutes. "I would answer violence with art," says author Salman Rushdie. He initially didn't want to write his new book "Knife" about the attack ...
Salman Rushdie reveals moment he thinks writers will be ‘screwed’ by AI. Author also said he is ‘over’ the knife attack that left him blind in one eye. Ellie Harrison.
NEW DELHI (ANI)- Salman Rushdie’s new collection of stories, The Eleventh Hour, will be published later this year—his first work of fiction since surviving a brutal stabbing in 2022, publisher ...
Sir Salman Rushdie says he has moved on from the knife attack which has seen his attacker jailed for attempted murder. Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced to 25 years last month after repeatedly ...
NEW YORK, NY – Hadi Matar, the man who nearly killed acclaimed author Salman Rushdie in a brutal 2022 attack, was sentenced on May 16 to 25 years in prison by a court in Chautauqua County.
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 ...
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 ...
LOS ANGELES, CA (IANS) – A documentary centered around novelist Salman Rushdie, based on his memoir ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’, will be directed by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney.
Salman Rushdie’s Attacker Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison. Hadi Matar, the defendant, said he believed Mr. Rushdie to be a hypocrite. His attack left the acclaimed author blind in one eye.
Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel Satanic Verses has made its way back to Indian bookshops, decades after being banned for sparking riots and outrage.
Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is 'over' the horrific knife attack that blinded him in one eye after his attacker was jailed.. Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced last month to 25 years for attempted ...