In this file photo, Salman Rushdie attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on Nov. 15, 2017, in New York. via Associated PressSalman Rushdie was attacked in western New York as he took the stage at the Chautauqua Institution for a lecture on the importance of freedom of creative expression. An Associated Press reporter who was on scene in Chautauqua, New York, says a man stormed the stage as Rushdie was being introduced, then began “punching or stabbing” the author. Later in the day, Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, told the New York Times that the author was on a ventilator and could not speak. AdvertisementThe book’s Japanese translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, was killed, and its Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, survived a stabbing attack.

Source: Huffington Post August 12, 2022 23:36 UTC