Business ‘The Satanic Verses’ author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing August 13, 2022 ndowd A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose. Read Moresource