Also in 1994 Mr. Amis left his first wife, Antonia Phillips, for Ms. Fonseca, a younger woman who Mr. Hitchens said in one interview was being pursued by Mr. Rushdie, among others.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html

As he lay in the hospital, Rushdie received countless texts and e-mails sending love, wishing for his recovery.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/salman-rushdie-recovery-victory-city

Booker prizewinner Salman Rushdie tweeted that Puffin “should be ashamed”.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/lifestyle/readers-reword-author-roald-dahls-stories/

He openly advocates suicide bombings, calls for the carrying out of the fatwa imposed against author Salman Rushdie and demands 'the blood of any person who insults Islam'.

Source: https://virtueonline.org/archbishop-canterbury-hosts-hardline-islamists-tea-and-cake

“I don’t know their names, I never saw their faces, but, that large group of people, I owe my life to,” Rushdie said.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/05/19/salman-rushdie-says-attack-on-books-in-florida-has-never-been-more-dangerous/

On February 14, 1989, the then Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie following the publication of Satanic Verses.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1731272/salman-rushdie-breaks-silence-first-time-since-stabbing-attack

Rather chillingly for a novel that was already done and dusted when Rushdie was attacked, ’s late chapters describe Pampa’s convalescence after she is stabbed through the eyes.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/29/victory-city-by-salman-rushdie-review-a-knotty-chronicle-of-intra-dynastic-rivalry

Rushdie is indeed not just the personification of courage; he is a metaphor for the freedom to express oneself and write.

Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/02/07/salman-rushdie-shares-photo-of-new-look-six-months-after-brutal-attack/

Rushdie was in ten kinds of misery.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/salman-rushdie-recovery-victory-city

Salman Rushdie doesn’t remember much about the moment he was attacked last August, just before he was to give a lecture in western New York.

Source: https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/salman-rushdie-says-he-struggles-with-writers-block-and-ptsd-in-first-major-interview-since-attack

Seen as penning a work that insults Islam, Rushdie lived under police protection for years and was eventually violently assaulted in New York last year, leaving him with no sight in one eye.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/05/iran-threatens-artists-who-drew-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-of-supreme-leader/

“Words are the only victors”: Salman Rushdie nearly six months after being attacked.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/briefing/classified-documents-government.html