Salman Rushdie’s boys are the focus of this article because the author was stabbed and is in critical condition. Salman Rushdie, a writer, was stabbed in the neck onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York on Friday August 12 in a horrific attack.
The perpetrator was immediately evacuated to a nearby hospital and the suspect, later identified as 24-year-old Hadi Matar, was taken into custody. Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen shortly after the event, according to Major Eugene Staniszewski of the New York State Police:
Rushdie was stabbed at least twice, once in the neck and once in the belly, by the suspect as he ran onto the stage and began attacking Rushdie.
After the incident, the author was seen in photographs from the scene lying on the ground while emergency personnel crouched over him. Videos also showed Rushdie being pushed on a stretcher toward a helicopter.
A few hours after the fact, it was revealed that the novelist was “situated in surgery”. Rushdie was recently placed on a ventilator and suffered serious injuries, according to the author’s agent, Andrew Wylie, who spoke to The New York Times:
“This is not good news. The nerves in Salman’s arm were severed, his liver was punctured and he was probably injured.
Salman Rushdie has been married four times and is the proud father of Milan and Zafar. In 1976, he married for the first time Clarissa Luard, a literature officer at the Arts Council of England. In 1969, the latter and the author, then unpublished, met at a concert.
Before marrying in 1976, the couple began living together when she was an advertising manager at the Paul Elek publishing house. Zafar was born to the couple in 1979, but they divorced two years later, in 1987.
Zafar reportedly owns his own public relations firm and is married to jazz musician Natalie Rushdie from London.
With his third wife, British editor and author Elizabeth West, Rushdie also has a son named Milan. About Milan, hardly much is known. He maintains a modest profile and does not post frequently on social media.
When he co-edited Rushdie’s 1997 book Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997, West worked with him. In the same year they got married and in 1999 they had their son. Ultimately, the couple divorced in 2004. Rushdie was previously married to American author Marianne Wiggins.
After marrying in 1988, the couple moved to London while Rushdie dealt with the fatwa issued by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini about his novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie and Wiggins went into hiding, but broke up in 1993.
Rushdie married Indian model, actress, cookbook author and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi in 2005 after divorcing Elizabeth West in 2004. The couple separated in 2007 without having children.
Rushdie’s four marriages eventually ended in divorce, but he maintained a close relationship with his children. In addition, she included a dedication in Joseph Anton for Milan and Zafar Rushdie, as well as her mothers Clarissa and Elizabeth.
