Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist
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| April 23 2025 | Hadi Matar is scheduled to be sentenced for the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, potentially facing up to 25 years in prison. |
| 2025 | Received the Champion of Writers Award from Authors Guild Foundation. |
| February 21 2025 | Hadi Matar was found guilty on both attempted murder and assault charges against Salman Rushdie, with witnesses including Rushdie himself testifying during the trial. |
| February 2025 | A jury was chosen at the Chautauqua County Courthouse for Hadi Matar's trial. During the trial, Matar entered the courtroom and declared 'Free Palestine' twice. |
| July 2024 | Matar is indicted in Federal District Court for the Western District of New York on three terrorism-related charges, including attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. |
| May 2024 | Rushdie argued that a potential Palestinian state would resemble a 'Taliban-like state' and become a client state of Iran, while also criticizing the current support of progressive students for Hamas. |
| April 2024 | Published 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder', an autobiographical book about the 2022 attack and his recovery. The book was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. |
| February 2024 | Bernardine Evaristo defended the Royal Society of Literature's response to the stabbing in The Guardian, leading to further controversy with Rushdie's public critique on social media platform X. |
| January 8 2024 | The jury selection for the trial of Rushdie's attacker Hadi Matar was originally scheduled to begin, but was delayed due to the lawyer's request to review Rushdie's memoir. |
| October 2023 | Rushdie expressed 'horror' at both Hamas' attack on Israel and Israel's retaliation in the Gaza Strip, calling for a cessation of hostilities. |
| April 2023 | Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. |
| February 2023 | Published his fifteenth novel 'Victory City', an epic tale about a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence. This was his first book released after the 2022 attack. |
| February 6 2023 | Rushdie appears in an interview with The New Yorker, expressing gratitude for surviving the attack and discussing his recovery. |
| 2022 | Suffered a serious attack that resulted in significant injuries. |
| 2022 | Appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the Birthday Honours for services to literature. |
| 2022 | Survived a stabbing at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. |
| October 23 2022 | Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie reported that the author had lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand as a result of the stabbing attack, though he survived the murder attempt. |
| August 2022 | Matar pleads not guilty to charges of attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault following the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. |
| August 2022 | Iranian officials made statements linking the Rushdie stabbing to ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, with political analyst Mohammad Marandi expressing no sympathy for Rushdie. |
| August 2022 | Salman Rushdie was stabbed during a literary event in the United States, sending 'shock and horror' through the literary world and prompting responses from numerous Nobel laureates and Booker Prize winners. |
| August 14 2022 | Literary agent Andrew Wylie reports Rushdie is on the 'road to recovery', acknowledging the severe injuries but noting his condition is improving. |
| August 12 2022 | Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, stabbed multiple times in the face, neck, and abdomen. He was airlifted to UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pennsylvania, and underwent emergency surgery before being placed on a ventilator. |
| 2021 | Married American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths. |
| 2021 | Rushdie married American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths. |
| 2021 | Published 'Languages of Truth', a collection of essays written between 2003 and 2020. |
| 2020 | US Department of Justice alleged Iran planned to assassinate US national security advisor John Bolton, which Marandi referenced in relation to the Rushdie attack. |
| July 2020 | Rushdie was one of 153 signers of the 'Harper's Letter', expressing concern about increasing restrictions on the free exchange of information and ideas in liberal society. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Swiss Freethinkers Award. |
| 2019 | Published 'Quichotte', a modern retelling of Don Quixote. |
| August 15 2019 | Rushdie criticized the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status via Twitter, calling the situation 'an atrocity'. |
| 2018 | Matar travels to Lebanon to visit his father, after which his mother reports he became increasingly isolated and focused on his Islamic faith. |
| 2018 | Received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Indiana University. |
| 2017 | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reaffirms that the original fatwa against Rushdie remains in effect. |
| 2017 | Published 'The Golden House', a satirical novel set in contemporary America. |
| 2017 | Rushdie appeared as himself in episode 3 of season 9 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, offering advice to Larry David about dealing with a fatwa. |
| 2016 | Acquired American citizenship and voted for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. |
| February 2016 | Additional money is added to the existing bounty on Rushdie's life, despite previous statements about the fatwa being 'finished'. |
| 2015 | Granted an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) from Emory University. |
| 2015 | After the Charlie Hebdo terror attack, Rushdie publicly expressed support for the publication, defending the art of satire and criticizing religious totalitarianism. He strongly condemned victim-blaming in media responses to the attack. |
| 2015 | Published 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights', a modern take on One Thousand and One Nights, exploring themes of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism through a war between supernatural jinns. |
| September 2015 | Served as keynote speaker and joined the New York University Journalism Faculty as a Distinguished Writer in Residence. |
| 2014 | Received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. |
| 2014 | Taught a seminar on British Literature. |
| 2012 | The film Midnight's Children was released, adapted from Rushdie's novel and screenplay. |
| 2012 | Rushdie publicly responded to criticisms from Pakistani politician Imran Khan, who had called him 'unbalanced' in an interview. |
| 2012 | Published memoir Joseph Anton: A Memoir, detailing his life after The Satanic Verses controversy. |
| September 18 2012 | Rushdie releases his memoir 'Joseph Anton', detailing his years of hiding under the alias he used during the fatwa controversy. |
| July 2012 | Spoke out against gun rights following a shooting at a Colorado cinema, advocating for gun control. |
| March 16 2012 | Rushdie returns to India to address a conference in New Delhi. |
| February 7 2012 | Published 'In the South' through Booktrack. |
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