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     Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, in which he is accused of stabbing Sir Salman more than a dozen times and blinding him in one eye as the ...

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     MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie rejects plea deal that would have exposed him to a terrorism charge, lawyer says.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Salman_RushdieSalman Rushdie - Wikipedia

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   Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL (/ s ʌ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i /; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations , typically set on the Indian ...

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   3 days ago · Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humor, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style.

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   • Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues. He is known for his novels, i...
   • Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on June 19, 1947.
   • Salman Rushdie received the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children. The novel is a fable about modern India and became an unexpected critical...
   • Salman Rushdie was knighted in 2007.

4. www.cbc.ca › radio › thecurrentSalman Rushdie details the 27 seconds of the knife attack ...

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   Apr 17, 2024 · Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie was attacked with a knife on stage in August 2022 and ultimately lost his eye. He tells CBC Radio’s Matt Galloway about how close he came to death — and the ...

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5. www.salmanrushdie.comSalman Rushdie Official Author Website

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   Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, and won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice)...

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7. www.bbc.com › news › entertainment-arts-68739586Salman Rushdie: Losing an eye upsets me every day - BBC

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   Apr 15, 2024 · Sir Salman Rushdie has spoken in chilling detail to the BBC about what he remembers of the attack two years ago, in which he was stabbed on stage.

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   Aug 12, 2022 · Over a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats arising due to the nature of his work.

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   What does Sir Salman Rushdie remember?

   • Sir Salman Rushdie has spoken in chilling detail to the BBC about what he remembers of the attack two years ago, in which he was stabbed on stage. The Booker Prize-winning author said his eye was left hanging down his face "like a soft-boiled egg", and that losing the eye "upsets him every day". "I remember thinking I was dying," he said.

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   Does Salman Rushdie defend free speech?

   • "Salman Rushdie, threatened over book, defends free speech". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015. ^ Thurston, Jack (15 January 2015). "After Paris Attacks, Salman Rushdie Defends Absolute Right of Free Speech While in Vermont". NECN. NBC Universal. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015.

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   Who is Salman Rushdie?

   • V. S. Pritchett wrote: "In Salman Rushdie, the author of Midnight’s Children, India has produced a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.

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   Where was Salman Rushdie born?

   • Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay - now known as Mumbai - two months before Indian independence from Britain. Aged 14, he was sent to England and to school in the town of Rugby, later gaining an honours degree in history at the prestigious Kings College in Cambridge. He became a British citizen, and allowed his Muslim faith to lapse.

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10. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2023/02/13The Defiance of Salman Rushdie | The New Yorker

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    Feb 6, 2023 · When Salman Rushdie turned seventy-five, last summer, he had every reason to believe that he had outlasted the threat of assassination. A long time ago, on Valentine’s Day, 1989, Iran’s ...