The writer's agent, Salman Rushdie, revealed that his client - who was famous for his novel "The Satanic Verses" - lost sight in one of his eyes and was paralyzed in one of his hands, after being stabbed on stage in New York State last August.
Business agent Andrew Wiley spoke about the details of Salman Rushdie's health condition in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País published today, Sunday, but he refused to disclose whether Rushdie is still in hospital.
Wiley described the injuries of Rushdi, 75, as severe, explaining that he lost sight in one of his eyes, and "he sustained 3 serious wounds to his neck. One of his hands was disabled due to cutting nerves in his arm, and he has about 15 other injuries to the chest and torso."
More than two months ago, police said a 24-year-old New Jersey man stabbed Salman Rushdie in the neck and body while the writer was giving a lecture at Chaotaqua, New York.
Wiley said at the time that the attack had caused Rushdie nerve damage to his arm, liver injuries, and possible blindness in one of his eyes.
The accused Hadi Matar, an American of Lebanese origin, pleaded not guilty to the charges of attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault.
He is still being held in a prison in western New York, without the possibility of being released on bail.
Salman Rushdie is a British writer born in India to a Muslim family from Kashmir, and his novel "The Satanic Verses", which included an exposure to the shrine of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, sparked outrage in the Islamic world when it was published in 1988.
Rushdie lived in hiding for 9 years under the protection of British police after Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian revolution, issued a fatwa to shed his blood.
Rushdie then moved to live in the United States.