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Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022.
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Aleksandra H. Michalska and Jonathan Allen, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
In front of a live audience, Matar stabbed Rushdie more than a dozen times, leaving the 77-year-old novelist permanently blind in one eye.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
The attack left the 77-year-old prize-winning novelist blind in one eye.
—Carolyn Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The Indelible Lessons of Erasure A Percival Everett fan weighs in on the novelist’s approach to racial satire and considers the translation of Erasure to the big screen in American Fiction.
—JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025
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Aleksandra H. Michalska and Jonathan Allen, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
In front of a live audience, Matar stabbed Rushdie more than a dozen times, leaving the 77-year-old novelist permanently blind in one eye.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
The attack left the 77-year-old prize-winning novelist blind in one eye.
—Carolyn Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The Indelible Lessons of Erasure A Percival Everett fan weighs in on the novelist’s approach to racial satire and considers the translation of Erasure to the big screen in American Fiction.
—JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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