Author Salman Rushdie has been injured after being stabbed on stage ahead of a speech he was due to give in Chautauqua, near Buffalo.
The writer was attacked as he took to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event before giving a speech on Friday morning.
He was attending for a discussion of the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression.
Rushdie has previously received death threats for his writing, with his book the Satanic Verses
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