Salman Rushie Taken Off Ventilator, Now Able To Speak

USA Today reports:

Salman Rushdie, “The Satanic Verses” author who was stabbed Friday as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York, has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk.

Rushdie, 75, remains hospitalized with serious injuries, but is “on the road to recovery,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie of The Wylie Agency, confirmed Sunday to The Associated Press. Wylie cautioned that although Rushdie’s “condition is headed in the right direction,” his recovery would be a long process.

On Friday, Wylie said the writer suffered a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye he was likely to lose.

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