Salman Rushdie Attack: Author Speaking And Off Ventilator As Suspect’s Father Refuses Questions In Lebanon

Salman Rushdie Attack: Author Speaking And Off Ventilator As Suspect’s Father Refuses Questions In Lebanon

Share to Linkedin The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is "on the road to recovery" his literary agent said Sunday, two days after he was stabbed onstage by a 24-year-old man from New Jersey, whose father has reportedly refused to speak to anyone about the attack or leave his home in Lebanon. Salman Rushdie at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 10, 2015 in Cheltenham, England. Zafar Rushdie, the author's son, said in a statement Sunday morning that his father was taken off the ventilator and was able to speak, though he remains in critical condition at the hospital. Despite his severe and "life changing" injuries, Rushdie's "feisty and defiant sense of humor" remains intact, his son said. Rushdie's literary agent Andrew Wylie told the New York Times that the controversial author's condition is "heading in the right direction," though he noted Rushdie's injuries are "severe" (he previously told outlets that Rushdie would likely lose an eye). Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old man from New Jersey who was charged with Rushdie's stabbing, had reportedly been in direct contact on social media with members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, anonymous intelligence sources told Vice News, though