Last Updated on 08/13/2022 by てんしょく飯
Salman Rushdie, 75, author of “Midnight’s Children” and other books, was attacked by an unknown assailant at noon on August 12 in Shotoka, western New York (NY), where he was visiting to give a lecture. The Associated Press, which had a reporter on the scene, reported the incident. His condition is not yet clear.
Mr. Rushdie collapsed on the spot.
According to the Associated Press, Mr. Rushdie was being introduced at a lecture when a man burst onto the stage and punched and stabbed him. Rushdie fell to the ground and the man was taken into custody.
Mr. Rushdie, a New York resident, is an Indian-born British citizen who won the Booker Prize in 1981. His “Satanic Verses” (published in 1988), based on the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, received much opposition from Muslims (Islamists), and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, sentenced him to “death. A foundation in Iran even placed a “bounty” of $3.3 million on the head of anyone who killed Rushdie.
The book was published in Japan in 1990. Hajime Igarashi, then 44, an assistant professor at Tsukuba University who translated the book, was murdered by someone on campus in July 1991, but the suspect was never apprehended and the statute of limitations expired in 2006.
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