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Salman Rushdie's new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie says even he is surprised he doesn’t have PTSD symptoms after 2022 attack

Author was injured in multiple places and lost use of his right eye after assassination attempt during a lecture

The Guardian - US

Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased’ by maximum sentence for attacker

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

Evening Standard

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Attacker who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison

Lawyers for New Jersey man Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

Al Jazeera

Salman Rushdie Assailant Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.

International Business Times

Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison

Hadi Matar was convicted of attempted murder for 2022 attack that left writer blind in his right eye

The Guardian - US

Salman Rushdie attacker sentenced to 25 years for frenzied stabbing at lecture that left author blind in one eye

A New York jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Hadi Matar of trying to kill the celebrated author

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Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie to be sentenced in New York

A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder and assault in February

Evening Standard

Salman Rushdie Attacker Faces Sentencing

An American-Lebanese man will be sentenced on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.

International Business Times

Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie faces sentencing in New York

The New Jersey man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022 is scheduled to be sentenced

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie pulls out as commencement speaker at California college over protest threats

Celebrated British-Indian author Salman Rushdie will no longer deliver the commencement address at Claremont McKenna College.

The Independent UK

Author Salman Rushdie joins Hay Festival line-up

The Indian-born British author will speak at the literary and arts festival in June to discuss his recent books, Knife and Victory City.

Evening Standard

Sentencing of attacker who stabbed Salman Rushdie adjourned

Hadi Matar, found guilty of attempted murder in 2022 attack that partially blinded author, to be sentenced 16 May

The Guardian - US

Salman Rushdie's first book of fiction since his stabbing will be published in November

Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall

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Man Found Guilty Of Trying To Kill Salman Rushdie

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty by a jury Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author.

Evening Standard

Man found guilty of attempted murder of novelist Salman Rushdie

Rushdie was stabbed with a knife multiple times in the head and neck

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie trial: Guilty verdict reached in trial of man accused of trying to kill author

The British-American novelist was seriously wounded and blinded in one eye in the August 2022 attack. Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to the charges

The Independent UK

How 27-second knife attack nearly cost Salman Rushdie his life after surviving decades of death threats

Satanic Verses writer told Hadi Matar’s trial in New York how he narrowly avoided death after attacker with ‘ferocious’ eyes left him in ‘lake’ of blood

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The Guardian - US

Man found guilty of attempted murder in Salman Rushdie stabbing trial

Jury convicts Hadi Matar, 27, charged with trying to kill author at literary gathering in New York state in 2022

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Closing Arguments In Rushdie Attack Trial

The trial of Hadi Matar, accused of attempting to kill author Salman Rushdie, reaches its conclusion with closing arguments imminent.

The Independent UK

Lawyers to deliver closing arguments in the trial of man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie

Lawyers are set to deliver their closing arguments Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a western New York lecture stage

The Independent UK

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie declines to take the stand as the defense rests

The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has declined to testify in his defense

The Guardian - UK

When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

The Independent UK

Interviewer who tried to stop knife attack on novelist Salman Rushdie initially thought it was a prank

Henry Reese, 75, had just sat down to interview Rushdie when the author was stabbed in a frenzied knife attack

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