Salman Rushdie’s feisty sense of humour remains intact, family says

Salman Rushdie suffered severe, life-changing injuries after he was attacked on Friday, his family has said (Ian Nicholson/PA)

Salman Rushdie suffered severe, life-changing injuries but his “usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact”, his family has said.

The author, 75, has a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye after he was stabbed at a lecture in New York on Friday.