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Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding under death threats from Iran because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said.

Rushdie became an American citizen in 2016 and lives in New York City.

The author fell to the floor when the man attacked him, and was then surrounded by a small group of people who held up his legs, seemingly to send more blood to his upper body, as the attacker was restrained, according to a witness attending the lecture who asked not to be named.before moving to the United Kingdom, has faced death threats for his fourth novel, “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims said contained blasphemous passages.

Rushdie published a memoir about his life under the fatwa called “Joseph Anton,” the pseudonym he used while under British police protection. His second novel, “Midnight Children,” is a magical realism allegory set during the 1947 partition of India, and won the Booker Prize. His new novel “Victory City” is due to be published in February.

There were no obvious security checks at the venue, with staff simply checking people’s tickets for admission, the eyewitness who was in the audience said. The Chautauqua Institution declined to comment when asked about security measures.He has been a fierce critic of religion across the spectrum. He has been critical of oppression and violence in his native India, including under the Hindu-nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

 

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