Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye, agent Andrew Wylie says - BBC

Author Salman Rushdie has mislaid imaginativeness successful 1 oculus and the usage of 1 manus pursuing his stabbing successful New York successful August, his cause says.

"He has astir 15 much wounds successful his chest," Andrew Wylie, a New York-based agent, besides told Spain's El País newspaper. "It was a a brutal attack."

Mr Wylie said helium could not disclose the novelist's whereabouts. The battle occurred astatine an lawsuit successful New York state.

Mr Rushdie has agelong faced decease threats for his 1988 caller The Satanic Verses.

Some Muslims respect the publication arsenic blasphemous. The antheral charged implicit the attack, US-born Hadi Matar, 24, has pleaded not blameworthy to attempted murder.

"He's mislaid the show of 1 eye," Mr Wylie said successful his interrogation with El País. "He had 3 superior wounds successful his neck. One manus is incapacitated due to the fact that the nerves successful his limb were cut."

Asked if the writer was inactive successful hospital, Mr Wylie replied: "I can't springiness immoderate accusation astir his whereabouts. He's going to live… That's the much important thing."

The onslaught took spot astatine the Chautauqua Institution successful New York State connected 12 August. Mr Rushdie was astir to springiness a code astir however the US has served arsenic a haven for writers.

The novelist was forced into hiding for astir 10 years aft The Satanic Verses was published. Many Muslims reacted with fury to it, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad insulted their faith.

He faced decease threats and the then-Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - oregon decree - calling for Mr Rushdie's assassination, placing a $3m (£2.5m) bounty connected the author's head.

The fatwa remains active, and though Iran's authorities has distanced itself from Mr Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian spiritual instauration added a further $500,000 to the reward successful 2012.

Mr Wylie told El País that helium had discussed specified threats with Mr Rushdie implicit the years. "The main information that helium faced truthful galore years aft the fatwa was imposed is from a random idiosyncratic coming retired of obscurity and attacking.

"So you can't support against that, due to the fact that it's wholly unexpected and illogical. It was similar John Lennon's murder."

Mr Rushdie was calved successful India successful 1947. He was sent to boarding schoolhouse successful England earlier studying astatine the University of Cambridge. In 2007, helium was knighted for services to literature.

There has been an outpouring of enactment for him, with the onslaught wide condemned arsenic an battle connected state of expression.