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Rushdie recounts a story about Samuel Beckett, another writer who survived a stabbing. Unlike Beckett, however, Rushdie never ...
Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing about it in a book. He details the experience in his first television interview since the attack.
Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is "pleased" the man who tried to kill him in a knife attack in 2022 has received the maximum possible prison sentence. Hadi Matar, 27, was jailed for 25 ...
Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie canceled his planned speech at a California college after students protested his appearance.
The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a Western New York arts institute in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for an attack that also wounded ...
The New Jersey man who tried to kill acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder in the second degree in February ...
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.
Salman Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, receives 25-year sentence for attempted murder. Rushdie was stabbed during a lecture, suffering severe injuries.
Hadi Matar, the man who severely injured novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 stabbing attack, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison — the maximum for attempted murder. Matar, 27, was found ...
A man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie, leaving the author blind in one eye, has been jailed for 25 years. Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February.