Salman Rushdie, a British writer who caused a backlash for blaspheming Islam in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verse, was stabbed by a man at a lecture venue in New York, USA on the 12th.
Mr. Rushdie is undergoing surgery at the hospital, but his detailed condition is not known, and the police are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
According to local police, on the morning of the 12th, Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie was on stage for a lecture at an educational facility in western New York, USA, when a man ran up. All of a sudden I was stabbed.
Mr. Rushdie was injured in his neck etc. and was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery, but the details are unknown.
Police arrested a man in his 20s who stabbed Mr. Rushdie on the spot and are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
Rushdie's 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was blasphemy against Islam. A series of incidents in which people involved in publishing in various countries were attacked.
In Japan, in 1991, Hajime Igarashi of the University of Tsukuba, who translated "Devil's Poetry" into Japanese, was murdered by someone, but the statute of limitations expired in 2006.