Novelist Salman Rushdie hospitalized after stabbing attack
By DW
21 August 2022 |
5:41 am
Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran in the 1980s, is in serious condition after a stabbing attack. The 75-year-old writer was about to give a lecture in New York when a man rushed the stage and stabbed him multiple times.
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