Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was hospitalized on Friday with serious injuries after being repeatedly stabbed during a public appearance in New York state, is off a ventilator and his condition is improving, his agent said on Sunday.
"He's off the ventilator, so the road to recovery has begun," his agent, Andrew Wylie, wrote in an email to Reuters. "It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction."
Rushdie, 75, was set to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom at Chautauqua Institution in western New York when police allege a 24-year-old man rushed the stage and stabbed him.
The Indian-born writer has lived with a bounty on his head since his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted Iran to urge Muslims to kill him. Amid the death threats, he spent nine years in hiding under a British government protection program in the 1990s.
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