Salman Rushdie misplaced sight in a single eye, hand motion after assault, says his agent

Following the brutal assault in opposition to him in August, creator Salman Rushdie has misplaced sight in a watch and hand motion, his agent has revealed.

In an interview with Spain’s El País, Andrew Wylie defined how critical and life-changing the assault had been.

“[His wounds] were profound, but he’s [also] lost the sight of one eye,” mentioned Wylie. “He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso. So, it was a brutal attack.”

The agent declined to share whether or not Rushdie was nonetheless in hospital, however mentioned an important factor was that the author goes to stay.

Wylie additionally identified that he and Rushdie had mentioned the opportunity of such an assault previously. “The principal danger that he faced so many years after the fatwa was imposed is from a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking [him],” he mentioned.

Rushdie, 75, was stabbed onstage within the neck and torso at a literary occasion in New York on August 12.

The Mumbai-born controversial creator, who confronted Islamist dying threats for years after writing ‘The Satanic Verses’, was airlifted to a neighborhood trauma heart and placed on a ventilator, and underwent a number of hours of surgical procedure. He suffered a broken liver and severed nerves in an arm and a watch, his agent Andrew Wylie had mentioned earlier. Following the assault, it was predicted that Rushdie was prone to lose sight within the injured eye.

The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie final week in western New York pleaded not responsible to second-degree tried homicide and assault expenses on Thursday throughout an arraignment listening to and was ordered to be held with out bail.