Author Salman Rushdie lost vision in one eye and was left "incapacitated" in a hand after he was stabbed in the United States in August, his agent said in an interview published this weekend.
The, who lived under Iranian death threats for his book "Satanic Verses", was stabbed several times in the neck and abdomen before he was to speak in New York.
Rushdie was air-lifted to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery.
"He's lost the sight of one eye... He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso," Andrew Wylie told Spanish daily El Pais, providing an update on Rushdie's health.
The injuries "were profound... it was a brutal attack", Wylie added.
Source: Naharnet