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Salman Rushdie’s life changed forever in 1989, when he had a fatwa slapped on him

The award-winning author has spent over three decades looking over his shoulder, going into hiding, and later making public appearances

But the threats to his life hadn’t stopped. Now, he is battling for his life in a US hospital.

On August 12, Rushdie was stabbed several times at a literary event in New York. He suffered severed nerves in an arm, damage to his liver and is also likely to lose an eye.

Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai in June 1947. He studied at Cambridge in England, before he became a full-time writer

Rushdie shot to fame for his book Midnight’s Children. The magic-realism novel won him the Booker Prize in 1981.

In 1988, Rushdie published his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses. Some Muslims considered the novel disrespectful of the Prophet Mohammed.