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Salman Rushdie pleased with maximum sentence for man who attacked him with knife

# Famous author Salman Rushdie is pleased with the maximum 25-year jail sentence handed to a man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural centre in 2022. Hadi Matar was sentenced after being convicted of attempted murder and assault. Video footage played during the trial showed Matar rushing onto stage and plunging a knife into Rushdie which left him blind in one eye. Last year, Rushdie published a memoir recounting the near-death experience called “Knife”, in which he has an imagined conversation with Matar.