Europe 1 with AFP 4:33 p.m., August 14, 2022

Salman Rushdie is "on the road to recovery", his agent Andrew Wylie said on Sunday, quoted by American media, two days after the British writer was stabbed ten times by a young American of Lebanese origin during a a conference in the northern United States.

Salman Rushdie is "on the road to recovery", his agent Andrew Wylie said on Sunday, quoted by American media, two days after the British writer was stabbed ten times by a young American of Lebanese origin during a a conference in the northern United States.

He is no longer on life support and "the road to recovery has begun," Wylie said in a statement sent to the Washington Post.

"The injuries are serious, but his condition is progressing in the right direction", added the agent of the author of "Satanic Verses" stabbed Friday at the cultural center of Chautauqua (State of New York) in the neck and abdomen .

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