Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack

Author Salman Rushdie off ventilator and able to speak

After being stabbed on stage in New York, which has been described as a “preplanned” attack, renowned author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to speak again.

Salman Rushdie 'off the ventilator; talking and joking' a day after attack

Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, Wylie said on Friday evening. He was likely to lose the injured eye

Agent: Salman Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after onstage attack

Prosecutors called the stabbing in western New York "preplanned."

Author Salman Rushdie off ventilator and talking after attack, agent says

Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York.The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk and joke. Literary agent Andrew Wylie cautioned that although Rushdie's "condition is headed in the right direction," his recovery would be a l…

Salman Rushdie off ventilator and condition improving, agent says

Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in Bombay, now Mumbai, before moving to Britain, has long faced death threats for "The Satanic Verses," viewed by some Muslims as containing blasphemous passages.

Salman Rushdie taken off ventilator

According to Salman Rushdie's agent, Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator.Rushdie was attacked on Friday after giving a lecture on Friday in western New York.It was during this lecture that the author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen and then flown to UPMC Hamot. Accused Rushdie attacker charged with attempted murder, assault The writer was put on a ventilator on Friday with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm, and an eye he wa…