Jurors heard how a knife attack on novelist Salman Rushdie unfolded in a matter of seconds at a 2022 New York talk and how close he came to death, in the prosecutor's opening statement on Monday at the trial of the man accused of trying to murder the author.

Author Salman Rushdie described the frenzied moments when a masked man rushed at him on a stage and repeatedly slashed him with a knife.

Hadi Matar is charged with attempted murder in the attack, which took place in 2022 as Mr. Rushdie was about to speak at an arts conference in western New York.

The Satanic Verses author was left blind in one eye after a 24-year-old man allegedly stormed the stage and attacked him at a literary festival in New York

The New Jersey man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack is standing trial in New York

Jurors have heard how a knife attack on novelist Salman Rushdie unfolded in a matter of seconds at a 2022 New York lecture and how close he came to death, in the prosecutor's opening statement at the trial of the man accused of trying to murder the author.

It was the first time that the author had come face-to-face with the suspect since the 2022 stabbing, which left him blind in one eye.

Author Salman Rushdie testified Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of attacking him with a knife just after he took his seat for a panel discussion at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.