Rushdie, 75, rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” about children born on the midnight of partition of India.īut Rushdie’s fourth book, in 1988 – The Satanic Verses – forced him into hiding for nine years. Read: Indian-born author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in New York(August 12, 2022) Since then, the award-winning novelist was taken off a ventilator on Saturday and was able to talk again, according to Wylie. His agent Andrew Wylie said the author could lose an eye after the attack, which also damaged his liver and severed nerves in one arm. Mumbai born author Salman Rushdie’s controversial book “The Satanic Verses” topped several Amazon bestsellers lists on Tuesday, days after he sustained serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York, CNBC reported. Ex-wife Padma Lakshmi relieved author is pulling through after Friday’s nightmare and hopes for his swift healing
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