Sir Salman was left blind in one eye after the attack last August (AP)In August 2022, Sir Salman was stabbed repeatedly while on stage at a literary festival in New York state. Sir Salman has a memoir coming out about the attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. Sir Salman called it a way “to answer violence with art”. The German prize, which is endowed with 25,000 euro (£21,768), has been awarded since 1950. Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had condemned passages referring to the Prophet Mohammed in Sir Salman’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses as blasphemous.

Source: The Times October 23, 2023 00:55 UTC