Police say a 24-year-old man identified as Hadi Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, is suspected of rushing to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, attacking novelist Salman Rushdie as he was being introduced to give a talk on artistic freedom to an audience of hundreds.
In his first interview since being attacked with a knife at a literary event in New York last year, Salman Rushdie expressed gratitude for having survived the incident
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Last year, British author Salman Rushdie was assaulted in a vicious knife attack. In an interview published Monday ahead of the release of his new novel ‘Victory City’, he said that he finds it "very difficult" to write after being stabbed last year.
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Police in western New York are investigating an attack on author Salman Rushdie, who was preparing to speak at an event when someone rushed up and stabbed him in the neck. CBS News senior investigative..