Author Salman Rushdie may lose an eye and on ventilator after New York stabbing

A 24-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in Friday's stabbing attack

Salman Rushdie the Indian-born author

Police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar

Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s

Salman Rushdie's liver and severed nerves damaged in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose

He served as the president of PEN America between 2004 and 2006

He served as the president of PEN America between 2004 and 2006

He was also work as chairman of the PEN World Voices International Literary Festival for 10 years.

The Satanic Verses , in this book saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad

The book was banned in Iran, where the late leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, calling for Rushdie’s death