Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted in February of attempted murder and assault for the stabbing, which left Rushdie blind in one eye.
Judge David Foley ordered the sentences to run concurrently.
Matar also faces separate federal terrorism charges that carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
“It was a stab wound in my eye, intensely painful, after that I was screaming because of the pain,“ Rushdie told jurors, adding that he was left in a “lake of blood.”
He previously told media he had only read two pages of Rushdie's “The Satanic Verses,“ but believed the author had “attacked Islam.”
Iran has denied any link to the attacker and said only Rushdie was to blame for the incident.
The optical nerve of Rushdie's right eye was severed in the attack.
Rushdie was rescued from Matar by bystanders. Last year, he published a memoir called “Knife” in which he recounted the near-death experience.
Rushdie, who was born in Mumbai but moved to England as a boy, was propelled into the spotlight with his second novel “Midnight’s Children” (1981), which won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for its portrayal of post-independence India.
Rushdie became the center of a fierce tug-of-war between free speech advocates and those who insisted that insulting religion, particularly Islam, was unacceptable under any circumstance.
Rushdie lived in seclusion in London for a decade after the 1989 fatwa, but for the past 20 years -- until the attack -- he lived relatively normally in New York.
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