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Author Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and mobility in one hand after he was brutally stabbed while giving a lecture in New York, his agent has revealed. 

The 75-year-old - best known for his novel The Satanic Verses which triggered a fatwa calling for his death from the supreme leader of Iran - was stabbed multiple times as he took to the stage to give a talk on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institute on August 12.

Mr Rushdie had to undergo emergency surgery after suffering stab wounds to the neck and stomach, puncture wounds to his right eye and chest and a laceration on his right thigh.