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Salman Rushdie in surgery after stabbing
Salman Rushdie is currently in surgery, said his agent Andrew Wylie via email, reports Reuters.
Wylie provided no further updates on the author’s condition.
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Here is more on the ongoing controversy surrounding Rushdie’s book, the Satanic Verses, from the Guardian’s Julian Borger:
When Salman Rushdie wrote his novel The Satanic Verses in September 1988, he…
