
Sir Salman Rushdie (PA)
(Picture: PA Archive)Sir Salman Rushdie’s injuries remain “severe” but his condition is heading “in the right direction” after his stabbing, the author’s agent has said.
The celebrated author, 75, who has faced Islamist death threats for three decades after writing The Satanic Verses, was knifed by an attacker who came out of the audience as he was about to give a lecture in western New York state on Friday.