Rushdie, 75, was on a ventilator after he was stabbed by 24-year-old Hadi Matar onstage at a event on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York State.
Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times before a speech in Chautauqua, New York on Friday roughly 30 years after Iran placed a fatwa on his life.
UK famous faces including JK Rowling, Boris Johnson, Nigella Lawson and Rishi Sunak reacted with disbelief after Sir Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck on stage in New York.