Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing has led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in western New York. The 75-year-old was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York when a man stormed the stage, it has been reported.
The man was said to have begun punching or stabbing as Rushdie was being introduced. The author of The Satanic Verses - which has been banned in Iran since 1988 - as well as Midnight’s Children and 2019’s Quichotte, was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours earlier this year.
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He was knighted in 2008, also for his services to literature, and has a literary career that spans more than two decades and during which he has won several high-profile accolades such as the Booker prize.
Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States.
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