The man accused of attempting to murder Sir Salman Rushdie was seen smiling and laughing after his second day in court in which the Booker Prize winning author took to the stand. Hadi Matar, 27, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 14, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahead of memoir release, Salman Rushdie opens up about knife attack “I was seated at stage right,” Salman Rushdie read from his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's new book, his 23rd, is also a resetting of his career. “The Eleventh Hour,” which includes two short stories and three novellas, is his first work of fiction since he ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture before a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author’s hand as he raised it ...

The author was speaking at a literary festival in western New York when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack Dave Kotinsky/Getty The New Jersey man accused of ...

NEW YORK — In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last. “At a ...

Salman Rushdie isn’t limiting himself to just his new memoir to recount the 2022 stabbing attack that nearly killed him. Ahead of the release of his newest memoir, “Knife,” the “Satanic Verses” author ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. - Salman Rushdie took the witness stand Tuesday in the attempted murder trial against his accused attacker, Hadi Matar. Rushdie described in graphic detail the injuries that nearly took ...

The novelist Salman Rushdie showed a jury his blinded right eye on Tuesday as he testified against the man charged with trying to murder him at a talk at a rural New York venue in 2022. Hadi Matar, 26 ...