Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack. Matar was found guilty on Friday.

He briefly bared to the jurors his now-blinded right eye, usually hidden behind a darkened eyeglass lens. Born in India, raised in Britain and now a U.S. citizen, Rushdie is a Booker Prize-winning ...

I was screaming because of the pain and I couldn’t see out of the eye any more," Rushdie said. Defense lawyer Lynn Shaffer got a chance to question Rushdie about the attack. “I believe you sai ...

Matar ran onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution where Rushdie was about to speak on Aug. 12, 2022, and stabbed him more than a dozen times before a live audience. The attack left the ...

Salman Rushdie’s attacker was convicted Friday of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing the famed author in a bloody horror that left him blind in one eye. Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty by ...

Reese was left with a gash above his eye after intervening in the attack, which blinded Rushdie in one eye. Rushdie said he likely survived because of the actions of Reese and other bystanders who ...

Rushdie testified Tuesday about the roughly 15 stab wounds he sustained, including a blinding blow to his right eye and one that pierced the hand he raised to defend himself. “I was dying.

The attack left the 77-year-old prizewinning novelist blind in one eye. Rushdie was the key witness during seven days of testimony, describing in graphic detail his life-threatening injuries and ...

severed nerves in an arm and an eye he was at the time reported likely to lose. During the attack, a small group of people immediately surrounded Rushdie and held up his legs to try and send blood ...

Rushdie was stabbed by the 27-year-old 15 times ... The author suffered wounds to his right eye, cheek, back, chest, torso and thigh. The 77-year-old has lost sight in his right eye, suffered ...

Hadi Matar had pleaded not guilty to charges in the 2022 attack. A jury has convicted a New Jersey man for attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie while the author ...

Rushdie, 77, was stabbed and slashed in the head, neck, torso, leg and hand and left blinded in one eye. During about an hour on the stand, he described lying in a “lake” of his own blood on ...