Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator with a damaged liver and may lose one of his eyes after the author was stabbed
He was stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man on stage
He was stabbed by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident identified as Hadi Matar on stage
It happened while he was being introduced at the event of the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York
Rushdie was airlifted from a field adjacent to the venue to a hospital in northwestern Pennsylvania
Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his novel “Midnight’s Children”, was unable to speak
Rushdie “will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged
The writer’s agent Andrew Wylie told The New York Times
“The news is not good,” Wylie said
The suspect was from Fairview, New Jersey, State Police Troop Commander Major Eugene J Staniszewski said