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Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator, may lose eye following stabbing in New York

British writer Salman Rushdie speaks during the opening day of the Positive Economy Forum in Le Havre, northwestern France, September 13, 2016. © Charly Triballeau, AFP

Salman Rushdie remained hospitalized Saturday after suffering serious injuries in a stabbing attack, which was met with shock and outrage from much of the world, along with tributes and praise for the award-winning author who for more than 30 years has faced death threats for his novel “The Satanic Verses.”

Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye, and was on a ventilator and unable to speak, his agent Andrew Wylie said Friday evening. Rushdie was likely to lose the injured eye.

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