Salman Rushdie
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrati
Rushdie in 2024
Rushdie presenting his 2005 novel Shalimar the Clown
Rushdie having a discussion with Emory University students in February 2008
Rushdie, right, with writers Catherine Lacey and Siri Hustvedt at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
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On August 12, 2022, Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by 24-year-old Hadi Matar as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in
Salman Rushdie
…have been carried out by extremists who cited the book as motivation, sparking a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence. In 2022, Rushdie survived a stabbing at the Chautauqua Institution that led to loss of his right eye and inflicted damage to his liver and hands. Two of the men who went to his aid were…
Amphitheater stage where the attack occurred, as seen on July 20, 2022
Salman Rushdie 2018
Henry Reese portrait