[AUTHOR ATTACKED] Writer Salman Rushdie Able To Speak After Ventilator Removed Day After Being Stabbed 10 Times, Agent Says

Author Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” resulted in death threats from Iran’s leader in the late 1980s, showed signs of recovery Saturday, one day after he was attacked in western New York, his agent said. Rushdie, 75, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen 10 times by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture about the United States as a safe haven for exiled writers, The New York Times reported.

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