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Salman Rushdie ‘road to recovery has begun’ but ‘will be long,’ agent says

Author Salman Rushdie
Author Salman Rushdie is able to speak after being attacked at a literary festival in New York state on Friday. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Salman Rushdie’s “road to recovery has begun” but “will be long” after his stabbing in western New York late last week, the novelist’s agent has said.

“The injuries are severe,” the agent, Andrew Wylie, said on Sunday in an email to the Guardian, alluding to stab wounds that the author suffered to his neck, stomach, eye, chest and thigh two days earlier. “But his condition is headed in the right direction.”

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